Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Instiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Version
1.6.6
5.1.21
0.30.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
BSD
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
general, education
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Mercurial
A common browser
Ruby 2.0-2.6
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki 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
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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478 ⭐
97 ⭐
Common Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
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
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
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
Yes
No
Yes
Links Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki Foswiki
Internal Link 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
[another site](http://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 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> 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
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
n/a
 
; term
: description
 
term
: definition
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
***
 
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