Confluence vs. Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Version
5.2
N/A
18.4.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-27 (20 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2026-05-27 (20 days ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
No
None
Topic Restrictions
No
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
No
System Requirements Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
No
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
No
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 Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence Papyrs XWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[Link](/page)
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://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
*italic*
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`mono`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,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
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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