Bamboo vs Bitbucket comparison

The compared Bamboo and Bitbucket solutions aren't in the same category. Bamboo is ranked #11 in BA , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 4.3% mindshare in the category. Bitbucket is ranked #1 in VC , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 17.0% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Bamboo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Bitbucket users who would recommend it.

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78% willing to recommend

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98% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Bamboo and Bitbucket based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (11th)

Bitbucket

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

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Version Control (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Bamboo is designed for Build Automation and holds a mindshare of 4.3%, down 8.1% compared to last year.
Bitbucket, on the other hand, focuses on Version Control, holds 17.0% mindshare, down 36.1% since last year.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bamboo	4.3%
GitLab	9.0%
GitHub Actions	8.1%
Other	78.6%

Build Automation

Version Control Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bitbucket	17.0%
Bitbucket Server	13.2%
Git	10.5%
Other	59.3%

Version Control

Featured Reviews

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting

Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.

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VinodKumar9

Lead Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Integrated task tracking has improved code collaboration and now supports secure, controlled delivery

The integration with Jira is a feature I really appreciate in Bitbucket because it allows for easy task management integration, which is very beneficial. Bitbucket provides strong Jira integration, which is essential for our client who uses Jira for task management. This integration helps streamline processes and has built-in CI/CD pipelines, private repositories, and provides solid support for managing tasks effectively. The CI/CD pipeline in Bitbucket streamlines our development process as we need built-in pipelines, which are available and easy to use. Bitbucket maintains code quality through branch permissions that alert you if you are pushing directly and there are branch protections or conflicts. It enforces naming conventions for branches, making it secure and easy to manage. Security-wise, Bitbucket has good features such as private repositories, access controls, authentication requirements, and secure pull requests, ensuring safety at various levels. The initial setup for Bitbucket is easy as I log in with the company email to access a workspace. Creating repositories follows a straightforward process involving setting permissions and branch creation.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."

"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."

"The main benefits Bamboo provides for me and my team are the automation to pick up code changes and automate the deployments, building images."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

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"I find Bitbucket's branching, pull requests, and branch mergers very valuable."

"The initial deployment is rather straightforward and only takes 30 minutes to an hour."

"The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its issue management."

"Bitbucket has a very clean UI, especially with the pull request dashboards where we can directly see the source and destination branches and the change, and the diff between the files in a single UI."

"We have a couple of different tools that allow us to tie source code changes to report bugs. It's integrated with a bug tracking system and also integrated with what requires a tracking system. So we have better facilities. We get with the command line and can type all that stuff in and get the same kind of trust, but when we d it all manually, it's not likely to happen."

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The most valuable features are the scripts used for migration purposes and to create new repository releases."

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Cons

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

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"Bitbucket could improve search and indexing capabilities. There is only basic searching available. There is only the ability to index the main branch but not the subbranches. The search capabilities are dodgy."

"The scalability for the cloud version can be improved."

"The product could benefit from enhancements in scaling capabilities for continuous deployment processes and better integration with other cloud platforms beyond AWS."

"When users are given access for the first time, they should have some basic setups to help them specify their purposes."

"There are many places where the product could be expanded to make it a more complete solution."

"Fine tuning for procedures and features related to analytics and code validation is needed."

"Bitbucket should integrate a static code analyzer."

"I would like to see the tool's desktop version."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"Bitbucket is an inexpensive product."

"A full licensing cost is paid for Bitbucket."

"When you increase from ten people to anything higher the price increase to one thousand five hundred. That is unsatisfactory and they should have a gradual price slope."

"I rate the price from Bitbucket a four out of five."

"Sometimes there are issues in obtaining licenses and the pricing could be improved."

"Bitbucket is a low-priced tool."

"I rate the pricing a seven out of ten because it is expensive."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis, it's available on our website. They have a free version, the pro version and then they have an enterprise version, and we're using a kind of the middle of the pro version for about $7 per user per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bamboo?

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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What do you like most about Bitbucket?

It's straightforward to adapt to, with user-friendly features and a convenient UI.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bitbucket?

Pricing is not based on low cost. It's based on the quality and satisfaction of the services provided. We are not comparing Bitbucket's pricing with GitLab.

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What needs improvement with Bitbucket?

Bitbucket has less community support compared to GitHub, which has many users. However, if you are already using Jira, Bitbucket becomes a natural choice. Bitbucket has limitations such as communit...

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Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

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Bitbucket is a team-oriented Git-based code hosting and collaboration solution. The best-in-class Jira and Trello integrations in Bitbucket are meant to bring the entire software team together to complete a project. Bitbucket gives your team a single location to collaborate on code from concept to cloud deployment, to generate quality code through automated testing, and to deploy code with confidence.

There are three deployment options for Bitbucket:

Bitbucket Cloud is a web-based version of Bitbucket that is hosted on Atlassian's servers and accessible via a URL. Pipelines, an exclusive built-in CI/CD tool in Bitbucket Cloud, allows you to create, test, and deploy directly from Bitbucket.
Bitbucket Server is installed on your computer and runs in your environment. Bamboo, our robust CI/CD platform, has strong connections with Bitbucket Server, allowing you to totally automate your workflow. The license is unlimited.
Bitbucket Data Center appears to users as a single instance of Bitbucket Server, but it is actually hosted on a cluster of servers in your environment.

This has some advantages over Bitbucket Server:

Availability: If one cluster node fails, the remaining cluster node(s) can continue to service requests, resulting in little or no downtime for customers.
Performance at scale: A cluster of numerous Bitbucket Server-running machines can manage more traffic than a single system.
Mirroring: For distributed teams working with large repositories, smart mirroring can increase Git clone performance.

Bitbucket Features

Bitbucket has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Workflow control: This helps you to enforce a project or team workflow.

Cooperation: Pull requests with inline commentary for code review cooperation.

Customization: If you don't find what you're looking for in our Marketplace, you can use our full Rest API to create unique features for your workflow.

Jira and Trello integration: Bring order to the chaos and keep the entire software company informed. Access to Jira issues and Trello cards' branches, build status, commits, and status.

Code collaboration: From concept to cloud, code collaboration is a must. Create a merging checklist with designated approvers and check for passing builds before transitioning Jira issues based on pull request status.

Consistent delivery: With built-in continuous delivery, you can build and test automatically. Build, test, and deploy with Bitbucket Pipelines, our integrated CI/CD solution. Benefit from code-based configuration and quick feedback loops.

Simple deployment: Keep track of your deployments, preview them, and confidently promote them.

Code security: You can rest easy knowing your code is safe on the cloud, and you can use checks to prevent errors from occurring.

Reviews from Real Users

Bitbucket stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust traceability and user-friendly interface. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

One PeerSpot reviewer, a Developer III at an Information Technology at a energy/utilities company, writes, “Bitbucket has improved our organization because it has simplified and streamlined our developer communication code and review process. It is also much more visual.” He adds, “Bitbucket's traceability is great. Being able to see pool requests is just a great thing for collaboration.”

Kajal P., Quality Assurance Manager at a tech services company, notes, “The solution is easy to use. If I need to check out my latest code or I need to send my local code to the depositories it is simple. Overall it has been a good experience from my side using this solution."

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