Wiki.js vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.5.299
2.3.33
16.3.1
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki 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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Node.js
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
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
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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 Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
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
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[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 (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
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
[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
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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* 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
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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