We performed a comparison between Bitbucket and GitHub based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Result: Based on the parameters we compared, GitHub comes out ahead of Bitbucket. Although both products have valuable features and can be estimated as high-end solutions, our reviewers found Bitbucket has a complicated deployment process.
"The solution is easy to use. If I need to check out my latest code or I need to send my local code to the depositories it is simple. Overall it is has been a good experience from my side using this solution."
"Bitbucket lets me create new projects in a few clicks and check out files in a seamless and integrated manner."
"The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its issue management."
"Bitbucket is feasible and friendly compared to Visual Studio DevOps on the Microsoft platform."
"What I liked the most about this program is that it integrates seamlessly with JIRA."
"We can watch the newly implemented code. So it's quite nice to organize the teams to see what part of the work is done and what part of the code is already old or new. It is very good for that kind of management."
"Bitbucket is a standard source code repository with all the features you would expect. It supports Git and SVN. It's an extensive tool that provides us with merging, branching, and change management capabilities. You can compare the changes with the current and previous versions."
"The version control feature for our code and the security aspect is valuable to us."
"The learning curve is small."
"I like the CI/CD features."
"Complication free with good ability for third-party integrations."
"GitHub is good for collaboration because everyone can access it or we can restrict access to a few users. If I upload a file and share the URL, it's not restricted to a set number of users. Everyone with the link can download the files."
"Has great integration with third-party tools."
"The product helps our team collaborate across different locations."
"The code sharing and updated history are valuable features."
"The code versioning is excellent, and having a detailed log, including every change made to the code by every developer, is invaluable. It makes it so that if there is a bug or problem in the product channel, we can find exactly where it happened and how to fix it."
"Bitbucket could improve pipeline building and deployment. Our deployments are not using the Bitbucket. Deployments we are going through Azure DevOps, but the integration is happening in Bitbucket."
"I rate the support from Bitbucket a four out of five."
"Currently, what's lacking in Bitbucket is the assignment feature."
"Bitbucket should consider having a CI/CD if they don’t have it already."
"The scalability for the cloud version can be improved."
"Bitbucket's usability and integration with other tools could be improved somewhat. My other issue is that Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, and all the other ones use slightly different jargon for the same things. They should come up with a standard language for all these tools."
"It goes well with other Atlassian solutions like Jira or Bamboo, but integration with other third-party solutions is more complex."
"Fine tuning for procedures and features related to analytics and code validation is needed."
"I would like to see more security where a plugin was available for us to update in relation to security."
"It would be better if the amount of storage were increased."
"The initial setup and implementation could be easier, I had some difficulties with it at first but I don't have a development background."
"The initial setup requires heavy documentation which can be challenging for new developers."
"Could be more user friendly."
"Github needs more storage."
"The only thing I see missing in GitHub is that it isn't very user friendly for key personnel who don't have in-depth, technical knowledge. In Jira, there are many functions to upload our test cases, and in GitHub we can only do it manually. There are functions which can be used to upload different files, but that still requires some technical knowledge. A layman cannot do it."
"From the recruiting standpoint, I would like to see email IDs and phone numbers and a brief introduction about their profile."
Bitbucket is ranked 1st in Version Control with 42 reviews while GitHub is ranked 3rd in Version Control with 74 reviews. Bitbucket is rated 8.4, while GitHub is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bitbucket writes "It's a good solution for storing code, but the usability and integration could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". Bitbucket is most compared with Bitbucket Server, AWS CodeCommit, Atlassian SourceTree, IBM Rational ClearCase and Liquibase, whereas GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Fortify on Demand, Atlassian SourceTree and Checkmarx One. See our Bitbucket vs. GitHub report.
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