TWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. GWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.8+
Datastorage TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
None
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
2
German, English
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
_Italic format_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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