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

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (9 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (8 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
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
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
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 XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
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
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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