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

General Features Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Version
N/A
16.2.0
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5.2
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Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
Author
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Atlassian
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
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N/A
No
N/A
License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
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
No
None
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
None
None
No
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Datastorage Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Other
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
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 XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
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 XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, 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
1
English
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Statistics Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
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
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zoho Wiki XWiki PBwiki EditMe Confluence BrainKeeper
Internal Link
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.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)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
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
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
Subscript Format
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
~subscript~
Images
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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