BrainKeeper vs. PBwiki vs. EditMe vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Version
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16.3.0
Last Release Date
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2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Wikia, Inc.
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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Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
$0
0
Development status
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Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
25MB to 4GB
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
1GB to 25GB
unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
None
none
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
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No
Webserver
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N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Yes
PostgreSQL
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N/A
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Yes
Oracle
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N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
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N/A
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
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N/A
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Other
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N/A
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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 BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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Yes
Code Repository
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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
Common Features BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
0
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
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Statistics BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Use WYSIWYG editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
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
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
Use WYSIWYG editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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