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

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
16.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (8 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (7 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
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
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Hosting Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
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
Webserver
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
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 PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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 PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[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://....
[[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
! 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
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
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
%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
-> 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
* 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
# 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
: term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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