JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Any
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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