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Bitbucket vs JFrog Artifactory: What are the differences?

Bitbucket is a Git repository management solution, while JFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager. Let's explore the key differences between them.

  1. Integration with Version Control Systems: Bitbucket is primarily a Git repository management solution, offering support for both Git and Mercurial version control systems. On the other hand, JFrog Artifactory is not limited to Git repositories and supports various version control systems, including Git, Subversion, and more.

  2. Artifact Management: While Bitbucket primarily focuses on version control and collaboration, JFrog Artifactory is designed specifically for artifact repository management, providing robust features for storing, managing, and distributing software artifacts.

  3. Support for Package Types: Bitbucket predominantly supports code repositories, whereas JFrog Artifactory extends its support to various package types, including Docker images, npm packages, Maven artifacts, and more. This broader support allows JFrog Artifactory to handle a wider range of software development use cases.

  4. Advanced Access Control: Bitbucket offers basic access control mechanisms such as permission levels (read, write, admin), but JFrog Artifactory provides more advanced access control features. With JFrog Artifactory, you can define fine-grained access policies, manage user groups, set up LDAP integration, and enforce strict security policies for artifacts.

  5. Build Integration: Bitbucket offers limited build integration capabilities, providing features like Bamboo (Atlassian's continuous integration and delivery tool) integration. In contrast, JFrog Artifactory has built-in integration with popular build tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, and Bamboo, allowing seamless integration of the artifact management process with the build pipeline.

  6. Advanced Metadata and Search Capabilities: JFrog Artifactory provides advanced metadata and search capabilities, allowing users to add custom metadata to artifacts, perform complex searches based on metadata, and utilize powerful search queries. These features are not as extensive in Bitbucket, which focuses more on source code management.

In summary, Bitbucket is primarily a Git repository management tool with basic artifact management capabilities, while JFrog Artifactory is a comprehensive artifact repository management solution that supports various package types, offers advanced access control, build integration, and powerful metadata and search capabilities.

Decisions about Bitbucket and JFrog Artifactory
Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Pros of Bitbucket
Pros of JFrog Artifactory
  • 904
    Free private repos
  • 397
    Simple setup
  • 348
    Nice ui and tools
  • 341
    Unlimited private repositories
  • 240
    Affordable git hosting
  • 123
    Integrates with many apis and services
  • 119
    Reliable uptime
  • 87
    Nice gui
  • 85
    Pull requests and code reviews
  • 58
    Very customisable
  • 16
    Mercurial repositories
  • 14
    SourceTree integration
  • 12
    JIRA integration
  • 10
    Track every commit to an issue in JIRA
  • 8
    Deployment hooks
  • 8
    Best free alternative to Github
  • 7
    Automatically share repositories with all your teammates
  • 7
    Compatible with Mac and Windows
  • 6
    Source Code Insight
  • 6
    Price
  • 5
    Login with Google
  • 5
    Create a wiki
  • 5
    Approve pull request button
  • 4
    Customizable pipelines
  • 4
    #2 Atlassian Product after JIRA
  • 3
    Also supports Mercurial
  • 3
    Unlimited Private Repos at no cost
  • 3
    Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • 2
    Academic license program
  • 2
    Multilingual interface
  • 2
    Teamcity
  • 2
    Open source friendly
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    IAM
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 2
    Mercurial Support
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    Cons of Bitbucket
    Cons of JFrog Artifactory
    • 19
      Not much community activity
    • 17
      Difficult to review prs because of confusing ui
    • 15
      Quite buggy
    • 10
      Managed by enterprise Java company
    • 8
      CI tool is not free of charge
    • 7
      Complexity with rights management
    • 6
      Only 5 collaborators for private repos
    • 4
      Slow performance
    • 2
      No AWS Codepipelines integration
    • 1
      No more Mercurial repositories
    • 1
      No server side git-hook support
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      What is Bitbucket?

      Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

      What is JFrog Artifactory?

      It integrates with your existing ecosystem supporting end-to-end binary management that overcomes the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and provides consistency to your CI/CD workflow.

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