BrainKeeper vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Version
N/A
1.9.11
18.5.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
Python
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
System Requirements BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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)
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
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
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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