BrainKeeper vs. PBwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Confluence

General Features BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Version
N/A
N/A
2.3.13
5.2
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PBworks
Alex Schroeder
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
License
N/A
N/A
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Perl
Java
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Determined by Solution Needs
free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Business Enterprises
family people, hackers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Writable data directory
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Text Files
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
No
Other
N/A
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
Perl
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Output BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~subscript~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
no example known
Text Indentation
Indented block
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* one
** two
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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