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

General Features Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Version
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16.2.0
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N/A
5.2
Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (30 days ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
EditMe, LLC
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
License
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Java
N/A
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Determined by Solution Needs
0
From $4.95/mo
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
25MB to 4GB
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
1GB to 25GB
Unlimited
Other Limits
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
None
None
None
No
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
None
None
No Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
No
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
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
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
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
N/A
Common Features Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
not allowed
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki EditMe BrainKeeper Confluence
Internal Link
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
CamelCaseLink or [Free 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
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Use WYSIWYG editor
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
*bold*
Italics Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
''italics''
//Italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
_italics_
Underline Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
+underline+
Monospace Format
WYSIWYG
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Use WYSIWYG editor
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
WYSIWYG
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
WYSIWYG
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
Subscript Format
WYSIWYG
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
~subscript~
Images
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
[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
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
WYSIWYG
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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