Bitbucket Server (discontinued) vs. Blackbird API Development

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) from Atlassian was a self-hosted source code management solution. The product is no longer available for sale, and support for existing licenses ended in 2024.N/A
Blackbird API Development
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. Blackbird API Development Platform enables developers to spec, mock, write boilerplate code, and debug APIs faster.
$10
per month (for a single user and 5 concurrent instances)
Pricing
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)Blackbird API Development
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)Blackbird API Development
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)Blackbird API Development
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User Ratings
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)Blackbird API Development
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(11 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)Blackbird API Development
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Bitbucket Server would be good to use if you are not extremely reliant on the availability of your code at any given moment. If you have other systems relying on the up status of Bitbucket Server that can cause problems if unable to reach it -- you might consider going with a different product
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Ambassador is really well suited for scenarios were you need to give power and freedom to your developers so they can take advantage of the self-service approach. One of the few scenarios I can not recommend using Ambassador is in the case you are planning to not using Kubernetes as it is a solution designed to work specifically on that platform
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Pull requests / code reviews are simple but effective - it's easy to discuss the changes and enforce quality gates (through integration with Bamboo)
  • The access control model is fairly granular, with per-branch and per-action permission configuration options
  • There are various plugins available to extend functionality, such as SonarQube
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Simple syntax
  • Easy to understand
  • Easy to install
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) should be evaluated for implementation based on the capacity of the environment ownership and support.
  • Insights and analytics reports are basic.
  • Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) as part of Atlassian tools has some restrictions for centralized user management.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Documentation is not updated
  • Implementing external authentication doesn't always work as described in the documentation
  • The Administration console is limited
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Because we're so locked in, it's likely we'll be using Bitbucket Server for a while, unfortunately.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
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Usability
Discontinued Products
The usability of its interface is pretty straight forward when it comes to creating projects and repositories, but when you have to dive into finer grained portions of the UI things can get tricky. If you are used to using tools like GitHub or Gitlab -- Bitbucket is just different enough to be a bother.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
It's great! it's amazingly simple to use and the best part is the self-service approach. I also like how easy it is to add a new route to a endpoint with the mappings definition.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Never really needed any support as the application is very easy to set up and maintain. Any questions we had were well documented in their online documentation, and community forum.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Overall the support has been great and quick to answer the requests I've submitted in the past. I was originally using the community/open source version and I can't say it was the best experience I had, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't great. I believe the biggest issue was that they refer to the documentation a lot but the documentation isn't updated regularly so I feel it's lagging behind the most recent versions.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Stash was selected before I was at the company, but we're looking at these alternatives and actively considering switching. Stash seems to have all the necessary features we need to make it work, but it doesn't have any bells and whistles or extra special features that we can use to create more advanced integrations with other products like Jenkins or Amazon Web Services.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
They both offer about the same in terms of end goal and purpose of use and scenarios. However, Ambassador does way better in terms of simplifying the syntax and makes offer a little bit more of control by adding the concepts of hosts, mappings while staying away from a hard to read single file configuration.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Stash has certainly improved the productivity of the team. We no longer have to use Shared Drive on network which is prone to hacks and errors to manage our code.
  • During the process of releases, the release engineering team can pull the latest and approved code from Stash and need not be dependent upon the availability of the developers during their non availability. It improves productivity and fastens the ETA for requests.
  • We have stayed on course for project deadlines since introduction of Stash and helps us achieve the goals of timely completion of projects.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Reduced downtime by redirecting traffic between DC.
  • Reduced engineering time, don't have to dedicate 1 person to manage it.
  • Increased training costs in the short term.
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