| General Features | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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5.2
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16.3.0
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
|
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
|
| Author |
PBworks
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
|
Atlassian
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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Yes
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| License |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Java
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Java
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| Data Storage |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Database
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Determined by Solution Needs
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
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| Development status |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Business Enterprises
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Any users. No Download, No Installation
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
No limit
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Other Limits |
None
|
None
|
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
|
No
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
None
|
No Restrictions
|
No restrictions
|
No
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| System Requirements | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
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| MySQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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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 | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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||
| 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 | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
English |
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Javascript
|
not allowed
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| 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
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | BrainKeeper | Zoho Wiki | Confluence | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
|
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking |
[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 |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
|
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking |
[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 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
|
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
WYSIWYG with shortcut key |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
|
WYSIWYG with shortcut key |
_italics_ |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
WYSIWYG with shortcut key |
+underline+ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
|
WYSIWYG |
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
|
WYSIWYG |
-strikethrough- |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
WYSIWYG |
^superscript^ |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
WYSIWYG |
~subscript~ |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[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 |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
Indented block |
|
WYSIWYG |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
|
WYSIWYG |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
|
WYSIWYG |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
|
<dl> </dl> |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
|
WYSIWYG |
---- |
---- |
| remove PBwiki | remove BrainKeeper | remove Zoho Wiki | remove Confluence | remove XWiki |