Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GitHub
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
GitHub 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
SourceForge
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
SourceForge is a B2B software discovery platform, featuring 4000+ categories in its comparison engine that potential buyers can use to compare software by user reviews, features, pricing, integrations, operating system, and deployment.N/A
Splunk Cloud Platform
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Splunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A
Pricing
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
Editions & Modules
Team
$40
per year per user
Enterprise
$210
per year per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
Considered Multiple Products
GitHub
Chose GitHub
SourceForge has been adulterating binaries and installers, bundling crapware/adware. These practices are incredibly questionable at best, and in my mind, nothing from the site is to be trusted anymore.
Chose GitHub
GitHub is like an end to end solution compared to Bitbucket from Atlassian. With regards to defect tracking in Git, professionals are comparing it with the likes of Jira. Also the newly added features of social networking make it a unique tool to connect with like minded …
Chose GitHub
Did not have a lot of say in the choice to go with GitHub, I am a member of the operations team that uses GitHub for our work, but was not involved in the decision making process. As a user of the application, I can say that it has helped us keep consistent configurations …
Chose GitHub
Others not listed above, CVS, Microsoft SourceSafe. GitHub offers the most comprehensive offering, including Code Review, Open API, Wiki (just to mention a few) in a single package. GitHub is likely the most used repository in the world. It's fast, even with high user volume. …
Chose GitHub
In my opinion, GitHub beats all of the competition.

The other services offer some things that could be considered benefits in some scenarios: Bitbucket has good integration with other Atlassian products, Gitlab is self-hosted and completely free, Beanstalk integrates with some …
SourceForge
Chose SourceForge
Once again I must circle back to the incident(s) in the past where SourceForge adulterated abandoned projects... I dislike that practice immensely.

I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private …
Chose SourceForge
G2 lacks the open-source community like SourceForge and does not allow interaction between developers and customers, although both do a commendable job of listing useful business and open-source software along with their price comparisons and reviews.
Chose SourceForge
I use SourceForge because here you can easily filter out and find the right software, and it has a huge collection of open-source software with trustworthy reviews.
Chose SourceForge
I just think SourceForge is the best for a person who's not really interested in the code but only wants a trustworthy way to read about and decide which software to use.
Splunk Cloud Platform
Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
My company used to use Loggly, and while I can't speak to the specifics of why we switched to Splunk, I do know that Splunk seems faster and has more features than Loggly. On the other hand, I've used Splunk much more than I used Loggly when we had it before, so my view could …
Features
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
Version Control Software Features
Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Product A and Product B
GitHub
9.3
10 Ratings
7% above category average
SourceForge
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Ratings
Splunk Cloud Platform
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Ratings
Branching and Merging9.610 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Version History9.610 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools9.69 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pull Requests9.710 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review Tools8.79 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Access Control9.010 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration8.710 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration8.710 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Branch Protection9.89 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
GitHub
-
Ratings
SourceForge
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Ratings
Splunk Cloud Platform
8.2
20 Ratings
4% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.419 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings00 Ratings7.320 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.58 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings00 Ratings8.811 Ratings
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Git
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(131 ratings)
9.9
(28 ratings)
9.2
(18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(10 ratings)
9.3
(5 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(26 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
7.2
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GitHubSourceForgeSplunk Cloud Platform
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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SourceForge
I recommend SourceForge to anyone or business that needs both commercial and open source software. This platform has a wide variety of software with many categories that allow easy search for any project, in addition to the fact that searches can be done separately (commercial and open source software) so as not to have mixed results which go with different purpose. In addition to the fact that the community of this platform is quite active and that there are always times to discover new projects that can be useful for a company or individual person.
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Cisco
Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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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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SourceForge
  • Commercial software and FOSS projects are available.
  • FOSS projects have advanced profiles such as software hosting for download as well as download metrics. As well as the released versions.
  • Commercial software profiles show detailed features, what it offers, price, frequently asked questions and a vast amount of user reviews.
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Cisco
  • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
  • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
  • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
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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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SourceForge
  • The overall design that SourceForge has really leaves a lot to be desired, although the entire platform works perfectly, I think that the design should be much more attractive.
  • There is currently no feature to save your progress on a review you are writing, so if you are writing a review and the browser is closed for some reason, all progress of the written review will be lost.
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Cisco
  • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
  • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
  • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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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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SourceForge
Souceforge was very straightforward and easy to manage. The leads worked for us so there is not a lot else to say about why I'd use it again. This isn't some complicated software product, it is a simple inbound marketing channel that is meant to generate leads and help us with brand awareness and it did exactly that.
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Cisco
Ease of use and have all the features we need
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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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SourceForge
SourceForge is super easy to use and very intuitive. And their support team and campaign managers help whenever we need it. Using SourceForge as a user is easy, and administrating a business software listing is easy as well. They also have great documentation.
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Cisco
What it does well:
- Powerful SPL query language for advanced users
- Excellent visualization dashboards
- Comprehensive documentation and community support
Where it needs work:
- Steep learning curve for SPL syntax
- Non-Intuitive UI for beginners
- Complex administration and data model configuration
- Search performance degrades with poor query optimization
Bottom line: Enterprise-grade tool requiring dedicated training investment. Best for teams with experienced analysts.
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Reliability and Availability
GitHub
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SourceForge
We've never had any issues or downtime with SourceForge. Since we've been a user, the platform has never been down. Or at least never that I've noticed.
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Cisco
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Performance
GitHub
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SourceForge
SourceForge loads extremely quickly whether you're using the front end or administrating your product listing on the back end. All pages are snappy to load--no issues with page speed whatsoever.
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Cisco
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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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SourceForge
I hardly ever use the support on SourceForge, as I have not needed it. Their product works well for me. One time I had to email them and they got back to me the same day, but that's my only experience.
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Cisco
Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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Online Training
GitHub
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SourceForge
When we first signed up, they pair you with a campaign manager who trained us on how to use the product properly. The product is simple so the training was only about 30 minutes and after that we understood all the features and how to make the most of it. Most of the work came with making a custom landing page and building a follow up process for our sales team.
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Cisco
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Implementation Rating
GitHub
No answers on this topic
SourceForge
We have used this service mainly to read explicit opinions that influenced the decision-making when implementing new software for my company
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Cisco
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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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SourceForge
G2 has a larger commitment time upfront and for a more expensive rate, which wasn't the best option for our team as we were just exploring the resources that existed out there at the time. We preferred Sourceforge as well due to its subscription service, making it easier to commit from the start.
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Cisco
Search Processing Language really is a game changer for writing easy-to-understand and maintainable queries on your data base logs. Once understood, setting up and validating a query can be done in no time- which leaves us the option to focus on more monitoring and improved services. We have no other tools that utilizes data this efficiently
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Scalability
GitHub
No answers on this topic
SourceForge
SourceForge has been plenty scalable for us. Our marketing department is able to edit listings and our executives can also log in to the platform if need be for leads and reporting information. SourceForge offers multiple user access and role permissions, so it's pretty scalable and easy to use for our entire team.
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Cisco
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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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SourceForge
  • It allowed us to learn more about the features and functions of some software that we currently use.
  • It allowed me to improve my decision-making for the software we use in the project area.
  • It helped us to replace several programs that were used in our company. We made several replacements, for much more optimal alternatives.
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Cisco
  • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
  • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
  • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
  • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
  • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
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