Sputnik vs. BrainKeeper vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Version
8.08.13
N/A
2.3.13
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
N/A
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Lua
N/A
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files
Files
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
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
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 TiddlyWiki
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
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
N/A
Writable data directory
A common browser
Datastorage Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
Optional
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
No
Other
Git
N/A
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
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
Yes
Links Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
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
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik BrainKeeper Oddmuse TiddlyWiki
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
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
- - -
Depending on plugins:
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