ProWiki vs. Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Instiki

General Features ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Version
2.0.045
1.6.6
5.1.21
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
BSD
Ruby's
Programming Language
Perl
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Individuals, private, small groups
general, education
System Requirements ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
none
Mercurial
A common browser
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Development/Support ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
No
Special Features ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Comments
No
No
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
No
Links ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
Usability ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
n/a
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
n/a
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
n/a
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
n/a
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
n/a
; term
: description
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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