Hatta vs. Instiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Version
1.6.6
0.30.0
5.1.21
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Ruby on Rails
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Ruby 2.0-2.6
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
Common Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Links Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
None
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Internal Link 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
 
[another site](http://example.com)
 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
 
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
''bold''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
_italic_, *italic*
 
//italic//
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
n/a
 
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
{{{verbatim}}}
 
`monospace`
 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
n/a
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
n/a
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
n/a
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
~~subscript~~
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
 
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text 
n/a
 
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
n/a
 
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* list
** sublist
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
n/a
 
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
n/a
 
term
: definition
 
; term
: description
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
***
 
----
 
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