XWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. GWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Version
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
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
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
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
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
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)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
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
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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
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 XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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 XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
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
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Statistics XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples XWiki TWiki JSPWiki GWiki DokuWiki
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]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italic_
''italics''
_Italic format_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
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!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
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}
N/A
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
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
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