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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.

    $4

    per month per user

    IBM Vault

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Vault (formerly Hashicorp Vault) is an encryption tool for managing secrets including credentials, passwords and other secrets, providing access control, audit trail, and support for multiple authentication methods. It is available open source, or under an enterprise license.

    $0.03

    Pricing
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
    Cloud - HCP Vault
    $0.03/hr
    Open Source
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
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    Features
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub and IBM Vault
    Feature
    GitHub
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    IBM Vault
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control9.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration8.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
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    GitHubIBM Vault
    Small Businesses
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Keeper
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Keeper
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (131 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitHubIBM Vault
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitHub
    GitHub is an easy to go tool when it comes to Version Controlling, CI/CD workflows, Integration with third party softwares. It's effective for any level of CI/CD implementation you would like to. Also the the cost of product is also very competitive and affordable. As of now GitHub lacks capabilities when it comes to detailed project management in comparison to tools like Jira, but overall its value for money.
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.
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    Pros
    GitHub
    • Version control: GitHub provides a powerful and flexible Git-based version control system that allows teams to track changes to their code over time, collaborate on code with others, and maintain a history of their work.
    • Code review: GitHub's pull request system enables teams to review code changes, discuss suggestions and merge changes in a central location. This makes it easier to catch bugs and ensure that code quality remains high.
    • Collaboration: GitHub provides a variety of collaboration tools to help teams work together effectively, including issue tracking, project management, and wikis.
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    IBM
    • The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
    • It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
    • Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.
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    Cons
    GitHub
    • Not an easy tool for beginners. Prior command-line experience is expected to get started with GitHub efficiently.
    • Unlike other source control platforms GitHub is a little confusing. With no proper GUI tool its hard to understand the source code version/history.
    • Working with larger files can be tricky. For file sizes above 100MB, GitHub expects the developer to use different commands (lfs).
    • While using the web version of GitHub, it has some restrictions on the number of files that can be uploaded at once. Recommended action is to use the command-line utility to add and push files into the repository.
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    IBM
    • Session Management is terrible to manage
    • Monitoring is hard and not enough information
    • User management
    • Configuration is too complex
    • More user friendly UI
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitHub
    GitHub's ease of use and continued investment into the Developer Experience have made it the de facto tool for our engineers to manage software changes. With new features that continue to come out, we have been able to consolidate several other SaaS solutions and reduce the number of tools required for each engineer to perform their job responsibilities.
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.
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    Usability
    GitHub
    GitHub is a clean and modern interface. The underlying integrations make it smooth to couple tasks, projects, pull requests and other business functions together. The insights and reporting is really strong and is getting better with every release. GitHub's PR tooling is strong for being web based, i do believe a better code editor would rival having to pull merge conflicts into local IDE.
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    IBM
    We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.
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    Support Rating
    GitHub
    There are a ton of resources and tutorials for GitHub online. The sheer number of people who use GitHub ensures that someone has the exact answer you are looking for. The docs on GitHub itself are very thorough as well. You will often find an official doc along with the hundreds of independent tutorials that answers your question, which is unusual for most online services.
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    IBM
    Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitHub
    While I don't have very much experience with these 2 solutions, they're two of the most popular alternatives to GitHub. Bitbucket is from Atlassian, which may make sense for a team that is already using other Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello, as their integration will likely be much tighter. Gitlab on the other hand has a reputation as a very capable GitHub replacement with some features that are not available on GitHub like firewall tools.
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
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    Return on Investment
    GitHub
    • Team collaboration significantly improved as everything is clearly logged and maintained.
    • Maintaining a good overview of items will be delivered wrt the roadmap for example.
    • Knowledge management and tracking. Over time a lot of tickets, issues and comments are logged. GitHub is a great asset to go back and review why x was y.
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    IBM
    • Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
    • Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Vault Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage.Screenshot of the secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault.Screenshot of where vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups.Screenshot of HCP Vault, which provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.Screenshot of where to view entity client and non-entity client counts.Screenshot of MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault.