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BitKeeper vs DVC: What are the differences?
Developers describe BitKeeper as "Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source". BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones. On the other hand, DVC is detailed as "Open-source Version Control System for Machine Learning Projects". It is an open-source Version Control System for data science and machine learning projects. It is designed to handle large files, data sets, machine learning models, and metrics as well as code.
BitKeeper and DVC can be primarily classified as "Version Control System" tools.
Some of the features offered by BitKeeper are:
- Simple: An easy to use command line interface.
- Scalable: Nested Repositories are submodules done right! Version control collections of repositories.
- Flexible: Hybrid mode for binary files that uses a cloud of server for binaries instead of bloating the source repositories.
On the other hand, DVC provides the following key features:
- Git-compatible
- Storage agnostic
- Reproducible
DVC is an open source tool with 4.43K GitHub stars and 398 GitHub forks. Here's a link to DVC's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of BitKeeper
Pros of DVC
- Full reproducibility2
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Cons of BitKeeper
Cons of DVC
- Coupling between orchestration and version control1
- Requires working locally with the data1
- Doesn't scale for big data1
