Should we use Nexus or Artifactory for a Maven Repo?

Question

We are using Maven for a large build process (> 100 modules). We have been storing our external dependencies in source control, and using that to update a local repo.

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Answer 1

I made some research recenly about Artifactory 2 and Nexus 1.3. I'll list here the main differences I found:

• Artifactory stores metadata and optionally files in DB, Nexus writes directly to file system. There are pros. and cons. for each approach. DB supports transactions, while in FS stored files can be accessed directly.
• Artifactory has higher system requirements especially for disk space.
• Artifactory has LDAP support, while Nexus has it only in paid version. On the other hand free LDAP plugin for Nexus is available on Google code.

The most complete comparison: http://binary-repositories-comparison.github.io/