Instiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Instiki JSPWiki
Version
0.30.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
all
System Requirements Instiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Instiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Instiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features Instiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features Instiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links Instiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Usability Instiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Statistics Instiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Output Instiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Instiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki JSPWiki
Internal Link 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link 
[another site](http://example.com)
 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines 
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
__bold__
Italics Format 
_italic_, *italic*
 
''italics''
Underline Format 
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format 
`monospace`
 
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images 
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='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'}
 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation 
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
term
: definition
 
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule 
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