BrainKeeper vs. ConnectedText vs. Confluence vs. KeheiWiki

General Features BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Version
N/A
5.0.0.1
5.2
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
N/A
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Eduardo Mauro
Atlassian
team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
No
No
Yes
License
N/A
Commercial
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL
Programming Language
N/A
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
Java
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
39,95
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
Enterprise + Technical Teams
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Operating System
N/A
Windows
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Unix/Linux
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
No need
Apache Tomcat
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
Plugin
RCS
N/A
No
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
Firebird
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
No need
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Apache
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Yes
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper ConnectedText Confluence KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__Underline__
+underline+
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
^superscript^
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
~subscript~
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* First item
* Seconditem
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. First item
1. Second item
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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