Bloomfire vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. Papyrs

General Features Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Version
N/A
16.2.0
5.2
N/A
N/A
N/A
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Last Update here
2012-04-12 (12 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
Author
Bloomfire, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
N/A
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Java
N/A
N/A
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
$5/user/month
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
N/A
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 + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
No
None
None
Topic Restrictions
No
No
No Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
N/A
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
N/A
N/A
Datastorage Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Text Files
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Bloomfire XWiki Confluence BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[Link](/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Use WYSIWYG editor
## Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
*italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Use WYSIWYG editor
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~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
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Use WYSIWYG editor
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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