A tale of two repository managers: Nexus and Artifactory compared and contrasted

There are several Maven repository managers on the market, but the two most prominent and most powerful are without doubt Nexus and Artifactory. Both these products are open source, with commercial versions containing more advanced features. Both are fine products, with many similar features. In many cases, however, Nexus and Artifactory respond to similar user needs, but in quite different ways. In this article, I will try to give a general picture of a few of the main distinguishing features of these two tools, from the point of view of how you might want to setup your enterprise repository in a real organization. Installation and general use Both Nexus and Artifactory are easy enough to install. Nexus does use a lot less memory (around five times less according to my unscientific trials). A full build for a medium-size project on my workstation ran roughly 15% faster with Nexus. Artifact searching Searching for artifacts can come in handy from time to time. Nexus provides a simple, Google-like search interface for searching both your cached repositories and the remote repositories (you can actually configure whether you want a particular remote repository to be included in local searches). Nexus also supports Open Search, so you can integrate the Nexus search function directly into your browser (see below). The Nexus search feature also lets you search artifacts by other criteria, such as classname, GAV (group/artifact/version) ...

Date: January, 03 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2010/01/03/tale-two-repository-managers-nexus-and-artifactory-compared-and-co

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