KeheiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.1.8
2.11.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
team
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
A common browser
Datastorage KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Optional
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Usability KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Foswiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~~subscript~~
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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