XoWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. GWiki

General Features XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Version
0.113
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
N/A
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Servlet 3.1+
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
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.8+
Datastorage XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
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
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
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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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XoWiki XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Internal Link
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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italic_
''italics''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
Images
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
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
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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