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

General Features EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Version
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16.2.0
5.2
Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
No
License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
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Java
Java
Data Storage
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Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
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Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
No limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
None
No
Topic Restrictions
None
None
No restrictions
No Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
System Requirements EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Development/Support EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
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 EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, 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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
No
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
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PBwiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper XWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[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]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
Use WYSIWYG editor
<left>, <center>, <right>
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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