BrainKeeper vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
Version
N/A
18.0.0
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Last Release Date
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2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
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
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
Other Limits
None
None
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
System Requirements BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
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 PBwiki
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 PBwiki
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
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
# 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 PBwiki
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 XWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
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
Plugin
Links BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
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
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
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
Yes
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
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Statistics BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
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
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper XWiki PBwiki
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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