We performed a comparison between Sync and SonarQube based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sync comes out on top in this comparison. It is secure and reliable. In addition, it has excellent support and a significant ROI.
"Snyk is a good and scalable tool."
"Our customers find container scans most valuable. They are always talking about it."
"It is easy for developers to use. The documentation is clear as well as the APIs are good and easily readable. It's a good solution overall."
"I think all the standard features are quite useful when it comes to software component scanning, but I also like the new features they're coming out with, such as container scanning, secrets scanning, and static analysis with SAST."
"The most valuable feature is that they add a lot of their own information to the vulnerabilities. They describe vulnerabilities and suggest their own mitigations or version upgrades. The information was the winning factor when we compared Snyk to others. This is what gave it more impact."
"We have integrated it into our software development environment. We have it in a couple different spots. Developers can use it at the point when they are developing. They can test it on their local machine. If the setup that they have is producing alerts or if they need to upgrade or patch, then at the testing phase when a product is being built for automated testing integrates with Snyk at that point and also produces some checks."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"A main feature of Snyk is that when you go with SCA, you do get properly done security composition, also from the licensing and open-source parameters perspective. A lot of companies often use open-source libraries or frameworks in their code, which is a big security concern. Snyk deals with all the things and provides you with a proper report about whether any open-source code or framework that you are using is vulnerable. In that way, Snyk is very good as compared to other tools."
"Some of the most valuable features have been the latest up-to-date of the OWASP, the monitoring, the reporting, and the ease of use with the IDE plugins, in terms of integration."
"Integrate it into the developers' workbench so that they can bench check their code against what will be done in the server-based audit version."
"It is working fine. It provides a good value for money."
"SonarQube is good in terms of code review and to report on basic vulnerabilities in your applications."
"It's enabled us to improve software quality and help us to disseminate best practices."
"It automatically scans for code, detects vulnerabilities, and generates daily reports."
"SonarQube is scalable. My company has 50 users."
"It has very good scalability and stability."
"It would be helpful if we get a recommendation while doing the scan about the necessary things we need to implement after identifying the vulnerabilities."
"It lists projects. So, if you have a number of microservices in an enterprise, then you could have pages of findings. Developers will then spend zero time going through the pages of reports to figure out, "Is there something I need to fix?" While it may make sense to list all the projects and issues in these very long lists for completeness, Snyk could do a better job of bubbling up and grouping items, e.g., a higher level dashboard that draws attention to things that are new, the highest priority things, or things trending in the wrong direction. That would make it a lot easier. They don't quite have that yet in container security."
"One area where Snyk could improve is in providing developers with the line where the error occurs."
"The way Snyk notifies if we have an issue, there are a few options: High vulnerability or medium vulnerability. The problem with that is high vulnerabilities are too broad, because there are too many. If you enable notifications, you get a lot of notifications, When you get many notifications, they become irrelevant because they're not specific. I would prefer to have control over the notifications and somehow decide if I want to get only exploitable vulnerabilities or get a specific score for a vulnerability. Right now, we receive too many high vulnerabilities. If we enable notifications, then we just get a lot of spam message. Therefore, we would like some type of filtering system to be built-in for the system to be more precise."
"Offering API access in the lower or free open-source tiers would be better. That would help our customers. If you don't have an enterprise plan, it becomes challenging to integrate with the rest of the systems. Our customers would like to have some open-source integrations in the next release."
"It would be great if they can include dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning features. Checkmarx and Veracode provide dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning, but Snyk doesn't do that. That's the reason there is more inclination towards Veracode, Checkmarx, or AppScan. These are a few tools available in the market that do all four types of scanning: static, dynamic, interactive, and run-time."
"For the areas that they're new in, it's very early stages for them. For example, their expertise is in looking at third-party components and packages, which is their bread-and-butter and what they've been doing for ages, but for newer features such as static analysis I don't think they've got compatibility for all the languages and frameworks yet."
"The product is very expensive."
"I think the code security can be improved."
"The solution could improve by providing more advanced technologies."
"The solution could improve by having better-consulting services."
"You may need to purchase add-ons to get the useability you desire."
"We also use Fortify, which is another tool to find security errors. Fortify is a better security tool. It is better than SonarQube in finding errors. Sometimes, SonarQube doesn't find some of the errors that Fortify is able to find. Fortify also has a community, which SonarQube doesn't have. Its installation is a little bit complex. We need to install a database, install the product, and specify the version of the database and the product. They can simplify the installation and make it easier. We use docker for the installation because it is easier to use. Its dashboard needs to be improved. It is not intuitive. It is hard to understand the interface, and it can be improved to provide a better user experience."
"The software testing tool capability could improve. It does not always integrate well. You have to use a specific plugin and the plugin does not always go in Apple's applications."
"Although it has Sonar built into it, it is still lacking. Customization features of identifying a particular attack still need to be worked on. To give you an example: if we want to scan and do a false positive analysis, those types of features are missing. If we want to rescan something from a particular point that is a feature that is also missing. It’s in our queue. That will hopefully save a lot of time."
"It would be better if SonarQube provided a good UI for external configuration."
Snyk is ranked 4th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. Snyk is rated 8.2, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". 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". Snyk is most compared with Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and Checkmarx One, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and GitHub Advanced Security. See our Snyk vs. SonarQube report.
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@Tej Muchhala : Code Quality and Security are 2 different domains and depending on how deep you want to go, the choice of tools will vary.
1. SonarQube - This has both community editions and commercial editions. The community has limited scope and no reporting. The enterprise version has a far broader scope covered with excellent reporting capabilities. SQ does have rules to compare against OWASP's Top 10 for both 2017 and 2021. Wrt Code Quality, SQ looks at unit-level issues and not necessarily module/design issues.
2. CAST Software Intelligence - This has 2 products - CAST Highlights can do very rapid analysis and provide you software health and also open source safety assessment for 3rd party libraries you might be using. SQ does not look into 3rd party libraries' assessment. CAST also has a dedicated security dashboard that checks code against various industry standards like OWASP, ISO 5055, CWE Top 25, NIST, etc.
3. Snyk again has multiple products to cater to different areas of security. This is a great product and has seamless integrations into your CI pipeline.
Regards,
Vishal.
Hi Tej, you should also check out CAST (castsoftware.com). Their kit does a very thorough analysis that may be a good option depending on the complexity of your codebase.
Hi Tej, as per my experience, SonarQube provides a better understanding of the code, it gives you a detailed analysis of the code up to the line level. It finds vulnerabilities in the code and runs test cases for you (if you add them). Also, you can customize the quality gate rules to define the parameters your code should pass like reliability, repetition of lines, etc. On the other hand, Snyk offers you an overview of the tools you are using, or the APIs you are using inside the code and gives vulnerability notifications and fixes. SonarQube doesn't fix or doesn't give any suggestions but Snyk will give you suggestions on which version of that dependency should be used and why. I have integrated both Snyk and SonarQube as both are open source up to a certain level.