KeheiWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
team
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
System Requirements KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
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
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
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)
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
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
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[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 ]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__bold__
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[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
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(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>

Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%(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 
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
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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