XWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. Papyrs

General Features XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Version
16.3.1
N/A
N/A
N/A
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Programming Language
Java
N/A
N/A
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
Mature
N/A
N/A
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
None
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
No
System Requirements XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Datastorage XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Text Files
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
RCS
Plugin
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other
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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
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
Common Features XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
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
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki BrainKeeper EditMe Papyrs
Internal 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)
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[Link](/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Use WYSIWYG editor
## Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
*italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Use WYSIWYG editor
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
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
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
Use WYSIWYG editor
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
***
remove XWiki remove BrainKeeper remove EditMe remove Papyrs