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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bitbucket

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ABitbucket is a Git repository and code collaboration platform, featuring automated testing and code deployment. Bitbucket Cloud Premium provides AI-powered development, more granular access controls, and enforced code quality, and Bitbucket Data Center provides a self-hosted option.

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    Mercurial

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AMercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and can enhance its functionality with extensions.N/A
    Pricing
    BitbucketMercurial
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    for up to 5 users
    Standard
    $3.30
    per month per user
    Premium
    $6.60
    per month per user
    Bitbucket Data Center
    starting at $44,000
    per year 1 - 500
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BitbucketMercurial
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BitbucketMercurial
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Bitbucket
    Naturally, Bitbucket will be compared to GitHub, that has reached a tremendous importance in the open source software industry. Overall, Bitbucket comes with similar set of features as GitHub. Bitbucket brought a good integration with other Atlassian products (especially Conflue…
    Incentivized
    Chose Bitbucket
    GitHub has a huge community to support, so, beside the price, is the best tool I've used as a git server.
    Gitlab is very similar to BitBucket, and for a free version as less limitations. Also is cheaper for companies, but doesn't have a smooth integration with JIRA. Also has a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bitbucket
    Our organization previously used GitHub as our VCS host and the move to Bitbucket has been very smooth and without any hassles, our team really enjoys the simple and easy to use UI over GitHub which allows for interactive code reviewing, the code search engine is also more …
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Features
    BitbucketMercurial
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Atlassian Bitbucket and Mercurial
    Feature
    Atlassian Bitbucket
    8.2
    3 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Mercurial
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools9.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools4.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
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    BitbucketMercurial
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    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BitbucketMercurial
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (66 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BitbucketMercurial
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like Sourcetree.
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    Open Source
    If you generally think that to develop software you have to choose one repository, then in my opinion you have to choose between Mercurial and Git, there is not other solution. Mercurial also has a good merge tool which i can recommend. This gives you the flexibility to push just the "part of the feature", and is much better suited in the case where the "part of feature" and some other "part of the feature" both contain changes to the same file.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like JIRA.
    • Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc.
    • Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company.
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    • Branch
    • Distributed architecture
    • Stable
    • Platform independent
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with.
    • BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
    • It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors.
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    Open Source
    • Integration with visual studio
    • More integrated tools
    • When I install Mercurial I always have to do a hard restart of my computer.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    All products have room for improvement. The system improves over time with better and better integrations and I look forward to even more features without paying extra! The system has increased transparency across my organization and with this transparency comes increased throughput on projects. I don't think I can go back to any other system and we are definitely married to this product.
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    Open Source
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    The architecture of Bitbucket makes it more easily scalable than other source code management repositories. Also, administration and maintaining the instance is very easy. It integrates with JIRA and other CI/CD applications which makes it more useful to reduce the efforts. It supports multiple plugins and those bring a lot of extra functionality. It increases the overall efficiency and usefulness of Bitbucket.
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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    The customer support provided by Atlassian (Bitbucket's parent company that also makes Jira, Confluence, etc.) is very helpful. They seem to be very concerned about any issues reported with their products and even just questions about functionality. They are constantly improving the products with new features in nearly every release. Plus they have a plethora of online documentation to reference.
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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more familiar tool compared to GitLab. Bitbucket won out because of its close integration with Jira and being in the Atlassian family. It was also cheaper than GitHub. As we started with Jira, Bitbucket addition became a natural next step for us. We really liked Bitbucket and stayed with it but we do know we have great options in the form of GitHub and GitLab should we need to scale fast.
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    Open Source
    When we chose Mercurial it was more popular from perspectives than Git and we have too many problems with the Microsoft team foundation solution. We also want to move from a centralized version of source control to a distributed one. We also were working more and more via the Internet with our source control so distributed version was only solution.
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • It's allowed for a lot of automation in terms of development workflows. It lets us pursue CI/CD approaches and get releases out faster
    • It has let us get our infrastructure configuration into VCS, which further improves our automation abilities.
    • It has aided in keeping track of changes, and allows us to keep workflows organized so we can track the status of development
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    Open Source
    • Improve time in merging
    • Branching enables us to keep separate version per customer
    • Good tool for programmers is sometimes a reason to stay
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