XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. BookStack

General Features XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Version
16.3.1
1.32.2
5.1.21
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
MIT
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
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 MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
A common browser
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
No
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
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
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
optional extensions available
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
10374 ⭐
Common Features XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
140
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, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Output XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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