We performed a comparison between Black Duck and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is able to drill down to the source level."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"The stability is okay."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"We didn't have a central inventory to quickly identify issues or determine how many products were affected. Now under Black Duck, it's all consolidated. You search for a component and immediately see which products use it."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"The solution is stable."
"Policy management is a valuable feature."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"They are giving a lot of APIs and Python scripts for certain functionalities, but instead of using APIs and Python scripts, they should provide these functionalities through the UI. Users should be able to customize and add more fields through the UI. Users should be able to add more fields and generate reports. Currently, they are not giving flexibility in the UI. They're providing a script that simply generates an Excel file or CSV file. There is no flexibility."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"Black Duck can improve the time it takes for a scan. Most of the time it's not ideal when integrated with the live DevSecOps pipeline. We have to create a separate job to scan the library because it takes a couple of hours to scan all those libraries. The scanning could be faster."
"It is a cloud-only solution. In many cases, companies like to evaluate the software, but they're very reluctant to give you the software. It would be great if they could offer an on-prem component that could be used to scan the code and then upload the discovery results to the cloud and get all the information from there, but there is no such possibility. You have to upload the code to the Black Duck cloud system. Of course, they have a strong legal department, and they offer some configuration, but it is never enough. You have to give the code, which is a drawback. In modern designs like Snyk or FOSSA, you don't need to give the code. It requires more native integration with Coverity because they go together technically. You need both Coverity and Black Duck Hub. It would be really helpful for companies working in this space to get a combined offer from the same company. They should provide an option to buy Coverity for an additional fee. Coverity combined with Black Duck Hub will provide a one-step analysis to get everything you need and a unified report. It would be really great to be able to connect Black Duck Hub with Coverity unified reports."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions, such as IntelliJ IDEA."
"It's still a bit inconsistent. For example, if I scan today, it might not show the same results tomorrow."
"We have been having some issues with the latest releases where we are not able to scan our applications with the help of Black Duck."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"Reporting could be improved."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while GitLab is ranked 6th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 70 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Black Duck writes "Enables applications to be secure, but it must provide more open APIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and Semgrep Supply Chain, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and UrbanCode Deploy. See our Black Duck vs. GitLab report.
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