BrainKeeper vs. XWiki vs. Papyrs

General Features BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Version
N/A
18.3.0
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Last Release Date
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2026-04-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2026-04-28 (2 days ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Other
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Special Features BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
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
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper XWiki Papyrs
Internal Link
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)
[Link](/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
## Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
*italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
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