| General Features | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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5.1.21
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TWiki-6.1.0
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16.3.0
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
|
| Author |
PBworks
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
N/A
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BSD
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
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HTML, JavaScript
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Perl, JavaScript
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Java
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| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
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N/A
|
0
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| Development status |
N/A
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Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Business Enterprises
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
A common browser
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
N/A
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
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
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
optional extensions available
|
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
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
7039 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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 | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Javascript
|
JavaScript
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
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) |
| External Link |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
! 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.. |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
''bold'' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
{{{monospaced}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.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 |
| Aligning Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
Indented block |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #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 |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
; term : description |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove PBwiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove TWiki | remove XWiki |