MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. BookStack

General Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Version
1.32.2
5.1.21
16.3.0
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
optional extensions available
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
10374 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki BookStack
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|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)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[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
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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