PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.3.33
16.3.1
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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