Sputnik vs. XWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Version
8.08.13
16.3.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
XWiki Development Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
MIT/X
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
Lua
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
No
System Requirements Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
Plugin
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
N/A
Other
Git
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 Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik XWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
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
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Sputnik
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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