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Bearer vs SonarQube: What are the differences?
Bearer: Code security scanning tool (SAST). Bearer is an open source, fast and accurate static application security testing (SAST) tool that analyze your source code to discover, filter and prioritize security and privacy risks; SonarQube: Continuous Code Quality. SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.
Bearer can be classified as a tool in the "Security" category, while SonarQube is grouped under "Code Review".
Some of the features offered by Bearer are:
- Open source, scan code in Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript and Java
- Access pre-built rules against OWASP Top 10 and CWE TOP 25
- Detect sensitive data flow including the use of PII, PD and PHI
On the other hand, SonarQube provides the following key features:
- Multi-language
- Detect tricky issues
- Security analysis
SonarQube is an open source tool with 8.01K GitHub stars and 1.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SonarQube's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Bearer
Pros of SonarQube
- Tracks code complexity and smell trends26
- IDE Integration16
- Complete code Review9
- Difficult to deploy1
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Cons of Bearer
Cons of SonarQube
- Sales process is long and unfriendly7
- Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful7
- Does not integrate with Snyk1
