BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia vs. Zoho Wiki

General Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Version
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16.2.0
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Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
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Last Update here
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
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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Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
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Database, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Development status
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Mature
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Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Hosting Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
None
none
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
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No
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N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
Other
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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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
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
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
0
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
not allowed
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Usability BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Statistics BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free 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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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