We compared SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
SonarQube offers a comprehensive solution with versatile language support, seamless integration with DevOps pipelines, and configurable features, making it a cost-effective choice with exceptional customer service. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on effective security measures, robust vulnerability detection, and user-friendly features, providing a valuable investment with flexible pricing and customizable options. Both platforms have room for improvement in areas such as analysis speed, user interface refinement, and integration capabilities.
Features: SonarQube's valuable features emphasize comprehensive code quality parameters, multiple language support, and integration with DevOps pipelines. GitHub Advanced Security focuses on software composition analysis, code scanning, and vulnerability alerts, with robust security measures and seamless workflow integration.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for SonarQube is considered straightforward and easy, with users appreciating the simplicity of the process. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security also has a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost. Both products offer flexible and customizable licensing options to cater to different user requirements., SonarQube has been praised for its ability to improve code quality, identify issues, and enhance project efficiency. Users benefit from its vulnerability detection and code compliance tools. On the other hand, GitHub Advanced Security offers enhanced security features, comprehensive vulnerability scanning, and automated security alerts, resulting in significant ROI and eliminating the need for third-party security tools.
Room for Improvement: In terms of areas for improvement, SonarQube could benefit from enhancing analysis speed, refining the user interface, providing clearer setup instructions, improving the documentation, addressing occasional performance issues, and enhancing integration options. On the other hand, users have suggested better integration with third-party tools, more customization options, improved usability and intuitiveness of the user interface, and increased speed and responsiveness for GitHub Advanced Security.
Deployment and customer support: Users report varying durations for implementing a new tech solution with SonarQube. Some took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both. For GitHub Advanced Security, some users took 3 months for deployment and a week for setup, while others took a week for both., SonarQube's customer service has been praised for its prompt and knowledgeable assistance. Users highlight the team's willingness to address any issues. GitHub Advanced Security's customer service is highly commendable, with users appreciating the level of assistance and guidance they receive. The team is described as responsive, knowledgeable, and efficient in resolving issues.
The summary above is based on 39 interviews we conducted recently with SonarQube and GitHub Advanced Security users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"GitHub provides advanced security, which is why the customers choose this tool; it allows them to rely solely on GitHub as one platform for everything they need."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"It easily ties into our continuous integration pipeline."
"The most valuable features are the analysis and detection of issues within the application code."
"When comparing other static code analysis tools, SonarQube has fewer false-positive issues being reported. They have a lot of support for different tech stacks. It covers the entire developer community which includes Salesforce or it could be the regular Java.net project. It has actually sufficed all the needs in one tool for static code analysis."
"It provides the security that is required from a solution for financial businesses."
"We have worked with the support from SonarQube and we have had good experiences."
"Using SonarQube benefits us because we are able to avoid the inclusion of malware in our applications."
"The fact that the solution does security scanning is valuable."
"It is a good deal compared to all other tools on the market."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"This is a well-rounded solution, however, some features could be made available on the free version. The price of the solution could be reduced."
"It should be user-friendly."
"SonarQube could be improved by implementing inter-procedural code analysis capabilities, allowing for a more comprehensive detection of defects and vulnerabilities across the entire codebase."
"If you don't have any experience with the configuration or how to configure the files, it can be complicated."
"For improvement, this solution could be offered on Docker and the cloud and the support for this solution could be improved. Customizing rules could also be made simpler."
"This solution finds issues that are similar to what is found by Checkmarx, and it would be nice if the overlap could be eliminated."
"It does not provide deeper scanning of vulnerabilities in an application, on a live session. This is something we are not happy about. Maybe the reason for that is we are running the community edition currently, but other editions may improve on that aspect."
"We had some issues scanning the master branch but when we upgraded to version 7.9 we noticed it does scan the master branch but we had to do a workaround for it to happen. This process could be improved in a future release."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. GitHub Advanced Security is rated 9.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitHub Advanced Security writes "A tool that provides ease of integration with the set of existing codes in an infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". GitHub Advanced Security is most compared with Snyk, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and GitLab, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. SonarQube report.
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