BrainKeeper vs. PodWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TracWiki

General Features BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Version
N/A
0.9.1
1.9.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Thomas Linden
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
average to advanced users
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
Hosting Features BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
apache
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite optional
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
No
No
Other
N/A
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
builtin
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
I<italics>
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
via html only
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
via html only
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
via html only
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via html only
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
G<logo.png>
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
indented text
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
via html only
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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