JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Version
2.11.0
16.3.1
6.1.25
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Software development teams
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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