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

General Features PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Version
N/A
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5.2
16.2.0
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Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
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Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
Author
PBworks
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Hosting Features PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Storage Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
No
No
No
System Requirements PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki 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
No
Plugin
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 PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki 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 PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki 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 PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
Javascript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
not allowed
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
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 PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki BrainKeeper Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free 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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[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
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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