Bloomfire vs. BrainKeeper vs. Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki

General Features Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Version
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16.3.1
Last Release Date
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2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
Author
Bloomfire, Inc.
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
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Java
Data Storage
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N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$5/user/month
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
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Development status
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Mature
Intended Audience
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
No
No Restrictions
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
No
System Requirements Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Operating System
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N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
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 Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Output Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Bloomfire BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Internal Link
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Italics Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
Underline Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
Monospace Format
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
Superscript Format
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
Images
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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