Apache Archiva vs. Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition

Well suited for small organizations to medium-sized teams/organizations. Apache Archiva is well suited for:

• It acts as a central repository/proxy of the artifacts generated and used by the teams.
• It provides control on which open source repositories can be utilized by the team.
• Saves network bandwidth by reducing outbound traffic.

Apache Archiva is less appropriate for organizations where immediate support/bug resolutions are required.

Incentivized

Best suited for secure artifact storage and wide distributions, along with compliance and governance support, easy integration with different organization ecosystems. Less suited for projects with minimal dependencies and offline environments with no connectivity to external repositories.

Incentivized

• It's an open source project and therefore saves cost.
• It allows exchange of artifacts/libraries between different teams.
• It allows managing internal and external repositories with ease.

Incentivized

• Secure artifact storage and customization
• Compliance components in lifecycle
• Integration in development ecosystems

Incentivized

• Muti-tenancy was hard to achieve.
• UI can be improved. Its seems bit dated.
• It is a bit tricky to setup.

Incentivized

• Expanded repository format support
• Detailed dependencies insights
• Integrated Vulnerability management

Incentivized

• Apache Archiva is a great choice for organizations with a limited budget.
• Alternatives are expensive to acquire Archiva comes offers REST API(s) which allows the creation of customized UI.
• With Apache Archiva, it is easy to manage the remote proxy repositories.
• RBAC helps with managing user access to the repository.
• Configuration can be achieved using UI and stored in archiva.xml.
• Backup of configuration is quite simple.

Incentivized

Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS has some useful features- - Distributed repository management - Insights in component usage - Repository Health check - Smart proxying option

Incentivized

• The impact of Apache Archiva on ROI has been positive. Since it is open source. It is free.
• It has allowed teams to store artifacts centrally, thus leading to a reduced need for multiple servers
• Security audits can be easily performed on the artifacts.

Incentivized

• Positive - security standards setup in organization
• Positive - detailed data insights

Incentivized