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Bitbucket Data Center vs. GitLab Enterprise Edition

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Modern software development that scales

Bitbucket Data Center is a Git solution for teams wanting best-in-class collaboration with Git, without sacrificing speed and performance.


Top reasons to go Bitbucket Data Center

From best-in-class integration with Jira to a better code review, Bitbucket Data Center gives your team everything you need to build high quality software at scale.

Git that massively scales

Support your growing team and maintain performance with built-in active-active clustering and disaster recovery. Rest assured that Bitbucket Data Center can handle anything you throw at it.

Support for distributed teams

Geographically dispersed teams save time cloning and pulling changes with Bitbucket Data Center's smart mirroring. Mirrors automatically stay in sync and inherit permissions from the main branch.

Better code review

Code reviews lead to higher quality and faster release cycles. Create a pull request workflow that works for your team with default reviewers, customizable merge checks, and 5 different merge strategies.

Integrations that matter

Get best-in-class integrations with Jira Software and Bamboo out-of-the-box. Using other tools? The Atlassian Marketplace offers hundreds of apps to tailor Bitbucket Data Center to meet your team's needs.


Why choose Bitbucket Data Center vs GitLab Enterprise Edition?

See how Bitbucket Data Center helps professional teams deliver software at scale

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Best-in-class Jira integration

Out-of-the-box integration with the #1 software development tool used by agile teams. Create Bitbucket branches from within Jira Software or transition issues without ever leaving Bitbucket.

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Flexible pull request workflows

Tailor your pull request workflow to fit your team's needs. Choose between 5 different merge strategies, create custom merge checks, and configure default reviewers.

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Disaster recovery

Bitbucket Data Center provides out-of-the-box support for implementing a disaster recovery strategy.

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Extensibility through apps

Customize Bitbucket Data Center with the best DevOps tools and apps from our Atlassian Marketplace.

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Built-in smart mirroring

Smart mirrors help geographically distributed teams work faster (and smarter). Mirrors automatically stay in sync and inherit permissions from the primary instance. No need for a secondary LDAP server.

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Active-active clustering

As your organization grows, maintain performance and ensure uptime by easily adding additional nodes to your cluster.

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Granular permissions

Give developers the right access, to the right code, at the right time with multiple levels of permissions.

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Code search

Looking for a specific error message or variable name? Search your entire codebase, a specific repo, or commit hash.

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User directory integration and SAML support

Integrate with existing user directories (LDAP) for simplified user management. Provide SSO to users through the SAML for Atlassian Data Center add-on.

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Git Large File Support (LFS)

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the large file contents in Bitbucket.

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Information effective December 18th, 2018

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All the features your team needs to build great software in a solution purpose built to support massive scale. Choose Bitbucket Data Center today.

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