TracWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki

General Features TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Version
0.11.5
16.3.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
0
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
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support TracWiki XWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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 TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links TracWiki XWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki XWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki XWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki XWiki TWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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