XWiki vs. Wikia vs. Zoho Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
16.3.0
N/A
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
N/A
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
N/A
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
N/A
N/A
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Any users. No Download, No Installation
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
0
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
not allowed
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Output XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
<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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Plugin
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
WYSIWYG
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
WYSIWYG
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
WYSIWYG
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
WYSIWYG
----
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