Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.3.13
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
16.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
All
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Hosting Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
---
----
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