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Bazel vs Sonatype Nexus: What are the differences?

What is Bazel? Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone. Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

What is Sonatype Nexus? The world's best way to organize, store, and distribute software components. Deliver better, safer software even faster with software supply chain automation.

Bazel and Sonatype Nexus can be primarily classified as "Java Build" tools.

Bazel and Sonatype Nexus are both open source tools. It seems that Bazel with 12.4K GitHub stars and 2.02K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sonatype Nexus with 527 GitHub stars and 236 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Sonatype Nexus has a broader approval, being mentioned in 49 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Bazel, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

Pros of Bazel

Pros of Sonatype Nexus

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Fast
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Deterministic incremental builds
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Correct
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Enforces declared inputs/outputs
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Multi-language
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High-level build language
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Scalable
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Multi-platform support
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Sandboxing
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Dependency management
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Flexible
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Windows Support
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Android Studio integration

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Cons of Bazel

Cons of Sonatype Nexus

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No Windows Support
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Bad IntelliJ support
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Lack of Documentation
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Learning Curve

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What is Bazel?

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

What is Sonatype Nexus?

It is an open source repository that supports many artifact formats, including Docker, Java™ and npm. With the Nexus tool integration, pipelines in your toolchain can publish and retrieve versioned apps and their dependencies

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What are some alternatives to Bazel and Sonatype Nexus?

Pants

Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.

Webpack

A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

Ansible

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.

Buck

Buck encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

CMake

It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of the user's choice.

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