Sputnik vs. BrainKeeper vs. Oddmuse vs. ikiwiki

General Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Version
8.08.13
N/A
2.3.13
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Alex Schroeder
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
N/A
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
free
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
family people, hackers
Anyone
Hosting Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any, or none
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
No
Yes
Other
Git
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
Perl
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
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
[[internal]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
# Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
- - -
Depending on plugins:
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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