DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. BrainKeeper

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
N/A
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (28 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL 2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
N/A
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
N/A
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
No
N/A
Other
None
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
N/A
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4600 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse BrainKeeper
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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