Hatta vs. Instiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Version
1.6.6
0.30.0
5.1.21
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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)
2020-07-19 (3 years 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 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
Ruby on Rails
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
None
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki
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]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
''bold''
 
*bold*
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
_italic_, *italic*
 
//italic//
 
_italic_
 
//italics//
Underline Format 
n/a
 
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underlined__
Monospace Format 
{{{verbatim}}}
 
`monospace`
 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format 
n/a
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format 
n/a
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
n/a
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
~~subscript~~
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<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"}%
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
 
Plugin
Text Indentation 
n/a
 
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
N/A
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
 
* 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
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists 
n/a
 
term
: definition
 
; term
: description
 
$ Term: Definition
 
Plugin
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
***
 
----
 
---
 
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