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Bamboo vs Bitbucket comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Bamboo
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (7th)
Bitbucket
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
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 6.0%, down 8.8% compared to last year.
Bitbucket, on the other hand, focuses on Version Control, holds 29.6% mindshare, down 35.3% since last year.
Build Automation
Version Control
 

Featured Reviews

Cuneyt-Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful for continuous deployment, but the stability must be improved
The setup is moderately difficult. It is not highly complicated, but it is not easy. We must go through some steps to complete the implementation. Once the product is implemented, it will be stable. We face some challenges since the tool is deployed on-premise. The capabilities are adequate for our needs, though.
Cuneyt-Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps us improve our development workflows and enhance team collaboration
Our primary use case for Bitbucket revolves around version control and collaborative development. We utilize it extensively to manage our codebase, facilitate Git operations, and automate our CI/CD pipelines on the Bitbucket Cloud platform. This setup enables seamless collaboration among our team…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."
"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"Bitbucket works fine for what I'm doing. It's slightly different from GitHub, but it's a good tool for storing code."
"The most valuable thing we have found is the workloads are good in Jira and we are able to control the access."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Its key strength lies in securing and centralizing code repositories."
"The setup was okay, and it was well-integrated."
"It seems to be quite scalable."
"I find Bitbucket's branching, pull requests, and branch mergers very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its capabilities."
 

Cons

"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."
"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."
"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."
"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."
"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"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 marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"One of the areas the solution could improve on is when there is a merging conflict it is quite confusing. When I am having a merging conflict I get stuck on the page, then I need to search how to handle the particular problem. For example, finding what the commands are which can be used."
"Bitbucket should consider having a CI/CD if they don’t have it already."
"Bitbucket could improve pipeline building and deployment. Our deployments are not using the Bitbucket. Deployments we are going through Azure DevOps, but the integration is happening in Bitbucket."
"I rate Bitbucket five out of 10 for affordability. It isn't cheap."
"Bitbucket's stability isn't flawless. It has crashed on me occasionally, but I haven't yet lost anything after a crash."
"I would like to see the integration with some of the cloud service providers improved."
"I feel the pricing for Bitbucket is on the higher end."
"The solution is not user-friendly. Right now, the solution is not so easy to understand. It needs to update its design and overall user experience."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."
"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."
"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."
"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."
"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."
"I rate the product price as two on a scale of one to ten, where ten means that it is a very expensive tool."
"A full licensing cost is paid for Bitbucket."
"Sometimes there are issues in obtaining licenses and the pricing could be improved."
"Bitbucket may be perceived as costly for smaller companies."
"I rate the pricing a seven out of ten because it is expensive."
"I did not pay for the license as I was using a corporate license. But I think the pricing is fair."
"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."
"Bitbucket is an inexpensive product."
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Comparison Review

it_user217035 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 27, 2015
Bamboo vs. Jenkins
A biased and subjective comparison of Bamboo and Jenkins as CI servers for mobile development, based on practical experience with both. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Delivery, Distribution) has been around for quite a while. But surprisingly enough on a global scale it pretty…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
What needs improvement with Bamboo?
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 we...
What do you like most about Bitbucket?
It's straightforward to adapt to, with user-friendly features and a convenient UI.
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.
What needs improvement with Bitbucket?
I am not able to recollect any new suggestions. In terms of the commits, we currently create a pull request, however, we are not able to assign any. This could be an area for improvement.
 

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