Apache Allura vs Bitbucket vs GitHub

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Apache Allura

2
26
+ 1
0
Bitbucket

40K
32.3K
+ 1
2.8K
GitHub

279.4K
243.6K
+ 1
10.3K
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Pros of Apache Allura
Pros of Bitbucket
Pros of GitHub
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    • 904
      Free private repos
    • 397
      Simple setup
    • 348
      Nice ui and tools
    • 341
      Unlimited private repositories
    • 240
      Affordable git hosting
    • 123
      Integrates with many apis and services
    • 119
      Reliable uptime
    • 87
      Nice gui
    • 85
      Pull requests and code reviews
    • 58
      Very customisable
    • 16
      Mercurial repositories
    • 14
      SourceTree integration
    • 12
      JIRA integration
    • 10
      Track every commit to an issue in JIRA
    • 8
      Deployment hooks
    • 8
      Best free alternative to Github
    • 7
      Automatically share repositories with all your teammates
    • 7
      Compatible with Mac and Windows
    • 6
      Source Code Insight
    • 6
      Price
    • 5
      Login with Google
    • 5
      Create a wiki
    • 5
      Approve pull request button
    • 4
      Customizable pipelines
    • 4
      #2 Atlassian Product after JIRA
    • 3
      Also supports Mercurial
    • 3
      Unlimited Private Repos at no cost
    • 3
      Continuous Integration and Delivery
    • 2
      Academic license program
    • 2
      Multilingual interface
    • 2
      Teamcity
    • 2
      Open source friendly
    • 2
      Issues tracker
    • 2
      IAM
    • 2
      IAM integration
    • 2
      Mercurial Support
    • 1.8K
      Open source friendly
    • 1.5K
      Easy source control
    • 1.3K
      Nice UI
    • 1.1K
      Great for team collaboration
    • 867
      Easy setup
    • 504
      Issue tracker
    • 486
      Great community
    • 482
      Remote team collaboration
    • 451
      Great way to share
    • 442
      Pull request and features planning
    • 147
      Just works
    • 132
      Integrated in many tools
    • 121
      Free Public Repos
    • 116
      Github Gists
    • 112
      Github pages
    • 83
      Easy to find repos
    • 62
      Open source
    • 60
      It's free
    • 60
      Easy to find projects
    • 56
      Network effect
    • 49
      Extensive API
    • 43
      Organizations
    • 42
      Branching
    • 34
      Developer Profiles
    • 32
      Git Powered Wikis
    • 30
      Great for collaboration
    • 24
      It's fun
    • 23
      Clean interface and good integrations
    • 22
      Community SDK involvement
    • 20
      Learn from others source code
    • 16
      Because: Git
    • 14
      It integrates directly with Azure
    • 10
      Newsfeed
    • 10
      Standard in Open Source collab
    • 8
      Fast
    • 8
      It integrates directly with Hipchat
    • 8
      Beautiful user experience
    • 7
      Easy to discover new code libraries
    • 6
      Smooth integration
    • 6
      Cloud SCM
    • 6
      Nice API
    • 6
      Graphs
    • 6
      Integrations
    • 6
      It's awesome
    • 5
      Quick Onboarding
    • 5
      Remarkable uptime
    • 5
      CI Integration
    • 5
      Hands down best online Git service available
    • 5
      Reliable
    • 4
      Free HTML hosting
    • 4
      Version Control
    • 4
      Simple but powerful
    • 4
      Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
    • 4
      Security options
    • 4
      Loved by developers
    • 4
      Uses GIT
    • 4
      Easy to use and collaborate with others
    • 3
      IAM
    • 3
      Nice to use
    • 3
      Ci
    • 3
      Easy deployment via SSH
    • 2
      Good tools support
    • 2
      Leads the copycats
    • 2
      Free private repos
    • 2
      Free HTML hostings
    • 2
      Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 2
      Never dethroned
    • 2
      IAM integration
    • 2
      Very Easy to Use
    • 2
      Easy to use
    • 2
      All in one development service
    • 2
      Self Hosted
    • 2
      Issues tracker
    • 2
      Easy source control and everything is backed up
    • 1
      Profound

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    Cons of Apache Allura
    Cons of Bitbucket
    Cons of GitHub
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      • 19
        Not much community activity
      • 17
        Difficult to review prs because of confusing ui
      • 15
        Quite buggy
      • 10
        Managed by enterprise Java company
      • 8
        CI tool is not free of charge
      • 7
        Complexity with rights management
      • 6
        Only 5 collaborators for private repos
      • 4
        Slow performance
      • 2
        No AWS Codepipelines integration
      • 1
        No more Mercurial repositories
      • 1
        No server side git-hook support
      • 53
        Owned by micrcosoft
      • 37
        Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
      • 15
        Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
      • 10
        API scoping could be better
      • 8
        Only 3 collaborators for private repos
      • 3
        Limited featureset for issue management
      • 2
        GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
      • 2
        Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
      • 1
        No multilingual interface
      • 1
        Takes a long time to commit
      • 1
        Expensive

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      What is Apache Allura?

      Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.

      What is Bitbucket?

      Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

      What is GitHub?

      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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