Buildbot vs GitHub Enterprise: What are the differences?

What is Buildbot? Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.

What is GitHub Enterprise? The on-premises version of GitHub, which you can deploy and manage in your own, secure environment. GitHub Enterprise lets developers use the tools they love across the development process with support for popular IDEs, continuous integration tools, and hundreds of third party apps and services.

Buildbot can be classified as a tool in the "Continuous Integration" category, while GitHub Enterprise is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:

• run builds on a variety of slave platforms
• arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
• minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted

On the other hand, GitHub Enterprise provides the following key features:

• Compliance and auditing
• Hundreds of integrations
• Flexible deployment

Buildbot is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, GitHub Enterprise has a broader approval, being mentioned in 39 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.