Difference Between Bitbucket and GitHub

Bitbucket: Bitbucket is the repository management tool that is specially built for expert teams and professionals. It is also called as Git repository management software and is a central hub for handling all the Git repository. Uses of Bitbucket are access control, workflow control, pull request, and integration for full rest API. 

Following are some features of Bitbucket: 

• Allows having unlimited private repository.
• History view with branch comparison.
• Manages branch permissions explicitly and allows the developer to restrict the branch access.
• Supports Git Large File Storage (LFS) to reduce the clone time.
• Allows third party API support with deep integration with Trello.

GitHub: GitHub is a repository hosting service tool that features collaboration and access control. GitHub is designed for the developers and to help them track their changes into a project through the repository. It is a platform for programmers to fix bugs together and host open-source projects. 

Following are some features of GitHub: 

• Specifies milestone and labels to the projects.
• Comparison view between branches.
• GitHub Pages allows us to publish and host websites within GitHub.
• Syntax highlight feature.
• It allows third-party API integrations for bug tracking and cloud hosting.

Below is a table of differences between Bitbucket and GitHub: 

Parameters	Bitbucket	GitHub
Developed by	Bitbucket was developed by Jesper Noehr.	GitHub was developed by Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon.
Version Control Systems	It supports Mercurial and Git.	It supports only Git.
Public Repository	It allows users to have multiple free repository.	It allows users to have unlimited free repository.
Private Repository	Bitbucket allows users to have free private repository but with maximum of five collaborators.	GitHub allows users to have free private repository but with maximum of three collaborators.
Navigation	Bitbucket has no feature for navigation.	GitHub allows user to navigate usability.
Project Analysis	Bitbucket allows developers to visualize the analysis with charts	GitHub doesn’t have this feature yet but they can check the commit history.
Advantages	Flexible with a variety of operating systems. Authentication of social media support is created by Bitbucket.	It helps us create an organized document for the project. It is used for sharing the work in front of the public.
Disadvantages	The maximum number of members can be 5 after that we need to pay for every additional member. There is no stability when the process gets heavy and it results in slow down.	There is a limited private repository. It supports only Git version control.
Semantic Search	Supports Semantic Search features such as classes, and interfaces, etc thus saving a lot of time.	GitHub does not support Semantic Search features.