JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
None
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
140
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, 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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
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