Confluence vs. BrainKeeper vs. XWiki

General Features Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Version
5.2
N/A
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
2024-05-09 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2024-05-13 (7 days ago)
Author
Atlassian
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
No
None
Topic Restrictions
No
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
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
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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