When comparing JFrog Artifactory vs Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS, the Slant community recommends JFrog Artifactory for most people. In the question“What are the best private nuget servers?” JFrog Artifactory is ranked 1st while Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose JFrog Artifactory is:
A very simple setup for trial and production deployment using Docker.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can run as a Docker container
A very simple setup for trial and production deployment using Docker.
Pro Run it locally or get it as a service
You can install Artifactory locally in your data center or get it as a service from JFrog on one of several cloud providers (currently AWS, GCP and Azure).
Pro Integration with JFrog Xray
JFrog Xray enables scanning of Docker images for known vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, providing a full component graph and analysis tool.
Pro Universal binary repository manager for Docker and any other package type
One centralized repository for any package type.
Pro Support high availability set up
Pro Lot's of formats supported
NuGet, npm, Maven, Docker, Bower, PyPI etc.
Pro Plugins
Good selection of plugins available at Nexus Exchange.
Cons
Con Free account is closed after 2 weeks of inactivity
Con Very frustrating
Con Docker registry support is not available on their OSS version
Con Buggy Installation and Migrations with version 7
Con Needs Java
Con Database
The free version has no other database option than OrientDB, the Pro version can also use PostgreSQL or H2.
