| General | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
|
4.1.11
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4.1.5
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2013-02-08 (11 years ago)
|
2016-03-12 (8 years ago)
|
2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-02-19 (11 years ago)
|
2016-05-30 (7 years ago)
|
2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Woltlab GmbH
|
vBulletin Solutions
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
LGPL
|
commercial / visible source
|
commercial / visible source
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
$89.99
|
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
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| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Akismet
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Plugin
|
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
141
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, Javanese, 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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
sql
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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