Bloomfire vs. XWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. EditMe

General Features Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Version
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16.3.1
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Last Release Date
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2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
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N/A
Last Update here
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
Bloomfire, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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N/A
Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
$5/user/month
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
Development status
N/A
Mature
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N/A
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, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
None
Topic Restrictions
No
No Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
Yes
System Requirements Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
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 XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Statistics Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
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
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Bloomfire XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe
Internal Link
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)
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
//Italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
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
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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