EditMe vs. BrainKeeper vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. Zoho Wiki

General Features EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Version
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16.3.0
5.2
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Last Release Date
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2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
Programming Language
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Java
Java
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Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Hosting Features EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
Unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
No
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
None
No Restrictions
No
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
No
No
No
System Requirements EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Datastorage EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
Other
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
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
not allowed
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence Zoho Wiki
Internal 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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[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]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
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
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
WYSIWYG
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
WYSIWYG
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
WYSIWYG
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
WYSIWYG
Images
[[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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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