Nuclino vs. EditMe vs. Confluence vs. BrainKeeper vs. XWiki

General Features Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
5.2
N/A
16.2.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2022-01-28 (2 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Nuclino GmbH
EditMe, LLC
Atlassian
BrainKeeper, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
From $4.95/mo
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams of all sizes
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Storage Quota
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
25MB to 4GB
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
No
None
Topic Restrictions
None
No
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
No
No
System Requirements Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
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 Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
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
No
No
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
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 Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
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
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Nuclino EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper XWiki
Internal Link
@Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[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
[Link title](URL)
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[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
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
Use WYSIWYG editor
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**Bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italics*
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italics_
//Italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
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
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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