PBwiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki

General Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Version
N/A
5.1.21
16.3.1
Last Release Date
N/A
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
Author
PBworks
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
A common browser
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Optional
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
optional extensions available
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Statistics PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PBwiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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://www.externallink.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[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
<left>, <center>, <right>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
:indent

> quote

<<<
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
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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