What is the difference between JFrog Artifactory and Bintray?

Question

I have been using JFrog Artifactory for a while at my company. I recently learned about JFrog Bintray . What is the difference between Artifactory and Bintray? Is Bintray a replacement for Artifactory?

Answer 1

Thanks for the question, this is a good one!

The main difference between artifactory and bintray in intended use. Artifactory is a development tool, while Bintray is a release and distribution tool. This may seem like a difference in subtlety, but it greatly affects the feature set of products:

• For development, you need features such as:
  • snapshot support
  • CI server metadata integration (aka build-info)
  • promotion between repositories
  • on-prem install
  • development site replication
  • integration with enterprise security systems such as SAML
  • and etc.
• For distribution, you need things like:
  • global distribution network (CDN)
  • maximum download throughput and redundancy
  • control of rights for external users (rights)
  • and support for EULA
  • etc.

As you can see, these are completely different lists.

Of course, there are general requirements:

• full automation REST API
• CLI
• plugins for popular CI servers and build tools
• indexing as many binary package standards as possible
• Install Me Up for easy configuration
• smart checksum based binary memory
• and of course, there should be an easy way to deflate artifacts from a development tool for a distribution tool (a repository in Artifactory that syncs with Bintray)

and we have everything that is covered, of course :)

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