XWiki vs. Zoho Wiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. Confluence

General Features XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Version
16.3.1
N/A
N/A
5.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (4 days ago)
N/A
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (today)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Java
N/A
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
None
No
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
No Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
No
No
No
System Requirements XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Text Files
No
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
N/A
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
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
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
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 Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
not allowed
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
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
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
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
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Zoho Wiki BrainKeeper Confluence
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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
~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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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