Instiki vs. Hatta vs. TracWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
0.30.0
1.6.6
0.11.5
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Radomir Dopieralski
Edgewall Software
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL v2
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Software development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Mercurial
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
A common browser
Datastorage Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
0
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
# 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
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
JavaScript
yes, using Python
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Plugin
Usability Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
n/a
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
n/a
term::
definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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