JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Datastorage JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ 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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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