Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

GitHub

286K
249.8K
+ 1
10.3K
JFrog Artifactory

343
372
+ 1
0
Add tool

GitHub vs JFrog Artifactory: What are the differences?

GitHub and JFrog Artifactory are both popular platforms used in the software development and deployment processes. While GitHub primarily focuses on version control and code collaboration, JFrog Artifactory is a repository manager that provides a central hub for storing and managing artifacts. Here are some key differences between the two:

  1. Integration of Development and Deployment Processes: GitHub is primarily focused on facilitating code collaboration and version control. It allows developers to work together, manage code repositories, and track changes. In contrast, JFrog Artifactory is designed to manage artifacts, such as binary files, libraries, and dependencies. It provides a central repository for storing and distributing these artifacts, making it easy for software developers to manage their deployment process.

  2. Support for Multiple Package Types: GitHub is mainly used for managing source code, while JFrog Artifactory supports various package types, such as binaries, containers, and package managers like Maven, Npm, and Docker. This flexibility allows developers to store and distribute different types of artifacts, ensuring seamless integration with their development and deployment workflows.

  3. Access Control and Security: While both platforms offer access control and security features, JFrog Artifactory offers more advanced options for managing permissions and securing artifacts. It provides fine-grained access control, allowing administrators to define user roles, assign privileges, and set up secure repositories. JFrog Artifactory also supports features like artifact signing and secure checksums, providing enhanced security for software artifacts.

  4. Metadata and Search Capabilities: JFrog Artifactory provides extensive metadata capabilities, allowing developers to associate relevant data with their artifacts. This metadata can include version information, licenses, and other custom properties. The platform also offers powerful search functionality, making it easy to find and retrieve artifacts based on various criteria. In contrast, GitHub primarily focuses on code search and does not provide the same level of metadata management for artifacts.

  5. Distribution and Replication: JFrog Artifactory provides advanced features for distributing artifacts across multiple locations or even different cloud providers. It allows developers to set up replication strategies to ensure high availability and reduce latency. GitHub, on the other hand, does not offer the same level of built-in distribution and replication capabilities for artifacts.

  6. Integration and Ecosystem: GitHub has a vast ecosystem of integrations and extensions, making it highly versatile and customizable. It integrates seamlessly with various CI/CD tools, issue trackers, and project management platforms. JFrog Artifactory also offers integration options with CI/CD tools and build systems, but its ecosystem is more focused on artifact management and distribution.

In summary, GitHub is primarily focused on version control and code collaboration, while JFrog Artifactory is a repository manager specializing in artifact management and distribution. JFrog Artifactory supports multiple package types, provides advanced access control and security features, offers extensive metadata capabilities, facilitates distribution and replication of artifacts, and has a more focused integration ecosystem compared to GitHub.

Decisions about GitHub and JFrog Artifactory
Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

See more
Weverton Timoteo

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

See more
Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

See more
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 8 upvotes · 704.9K views

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

See more

Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

See more
Nazar Atamaniuk
Shared insights
on
DeployPlaceDeployPlaceGitHubGitHubGitLabGitLab

At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I can’t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesn’t let us chose it for our projects.

See more
Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn More
Pros of GitHub
Pros of JFrog Artifactory
  • 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
  • 487
    Great community
  • 483
    Remote team collaboration
  • 449
    Great way to share
  • 442
    Pull request and features planning
  • 147
    Just works
  • 132
    Integrated in many tools
  • 122
    Free Public Repos
  • 116
    Github Gists
  • 113
    Github pages
  • 83
    Easy to find repos
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Easy to find projects
  • 60
    It's free
  • 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
    Standard in Open Source collab
  • 10
    Newsfeed
  • 8
    Fast
  • 8
    Beautiful user experience
  • 8
    It integrates directly with Hipchat
  • 7
    Easy to discover new code libraries
  • 6
    Smooth integration
  • 6
    Integrations
  • 6
    Graphs
  • 6
    Nice API
  • 6
    It's awesome
  • 6
    Cloud SCM
  • 5
    Quick Onboarding
  • 5
    Remarkable uptime
  • 5
    CI Integration
  • 5
    Reliable
  • 5
    Hands down best online Git service available
  • 4
    Version Control
  • 4
    Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
  • 4
    Simple but powerful
  • 4
    Loved by developers
  • 4
    Free HTML hosting
  • 4
    Uses GIT
  • 4
    Security options
  • 4
    Easy to use and collaborate with others
  • 3
    Easy deployment via SSH
  • 3
    Ci
  • 3
    IAM
  • 3
    Nice to use
  • 2
    Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
  • 2
    Beautiful
  • 2
    Self Hosted
  • 2
    Issues tracker
  • 2
    Easy source control and everything is backed up
  • 2
    Never dethroned
  • 2
    All in one development service
  • 2
    Good tools support
  • 2
    Free HTML hostings
  • 2
    IAM integration
  • 2
    Very Easy to Use
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Leads the copycats
  • 2
    Free private repos
  • 1
    Profound
  • 1
    Dasf
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    Cons of GitHub
    Cons of JFrog Artifactory
    • 55
      Owned by micrcosoft
    • 38
      Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
    • 15
      Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
    • 10
      API scoping could be better
    • 9
      Only 3 collaborators for private repos
    • 4
      Limited featureset for issue management
    • 3
      Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
    • 2
      GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
    • 1
      No multilingual interface
    • 1
      Takes a long time to commit
    • 1
      Expensive
      Be the first to leave a con

      Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

      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.

      What is JFrog Artifactory?

      It integrates with your existing ecosystem supporting end-to-end binary management that overcomes the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and provides consistency to your CI/CD workflow.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

      What companies use GitHub?
      What companies use JFrog Artifactory?
      Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
      Learn More

      Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

      What tools integrate with GitHub?
      What tools integrate with JFrog Artifactory?

      Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

      Blog Posts

      Dec 8 2020 at 5:50PM

      DigitalOcean

      GitHubMySQLPostgreSQL+11
      3
      2448
      GitHubOptimizelySegment+3
      4
      1206
      Mar 18 2020 at 9:12AM

      LaunchDarkly

      GitHubLaunchDarkly+2
      7
      1143
      JavaScriptGitHubReact+12
      5
      4202
      GitHubDockerReact+17
      41
      37354
      What are some alternatives to GitHub and JFrog Artifactory?
      GitLab
      GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
      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.
      AWS CodeCommit
      CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
      SVN (Subversion)
      Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
      See all alternatives