Papyrs vs. PBwiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. XWiki

General Features Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Version
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16.3.0
Last Release Date
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2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
Author
Stunf BV
PBworks
BrainKeeper, 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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N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Determined by Solution Needs
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
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N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
No limit
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
Topic Restrictions
None
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
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 Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
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
Common Features Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Papyrs PBwiki BrainKeeper XWiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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](https://papyrs.com)
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
## Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
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>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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