Devise vs Spring Security: What are the differences?
Devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden; Spring Security: A powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. The real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements.
Devise and Spring Security can be categorized as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Some of the features offered by Devise are:
- Is Rack based
- Is a complete MVC solution based on Rails engines
- Allows you to have multiple models signed in at the same time
On the other hand, Spring Security provides the following key features:
- Comprehensive
- Servlet API integration
- Protection against attacks
Devise and Spring Security are both open source tools. It seems that Devise with 20K GitHub stars and 4.76K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Spring Security with 3.63K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Devise has a broader approval, being mentioned in 56 company stacks & 30 developers stacks; compared to Spring Security, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
