XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Instiki vs. Hatta

General Features XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Version
16.3.1
2.11.0
0.30.0
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Ruby's
GPL v2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Ruby on Rails
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
general, education
Hosting Features XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Mercurial
Datastorage XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
No
Special Features XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
No
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
No
Links XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
No
No
Usability XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki JSPWiki Instiki Hatta
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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
`monospace`
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
n/a
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;term:definition
term
: definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
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***
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