Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix

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	CruiseControl	CruiseControl.NET	Drumbeat CI	Tinderbox & Tinderbox2	BuildBot	Anthill Professional	Anthill	BeetleJuice	Luntbuild professional	LuntBuild	Gump	Draco.NET	Continuum	Sin	Parabuild Server	Tinderbox3	Pulse	TeamCity
Project info																		EAP
Project origin	ThoughtWorks	ThoughtWorks	Timpani Software	Mozilla Project		Urbancode	Urbancode		PMEase	PMEase			Apache	CSH Consult	Viewtier Systems	John Keiser	Zutubi	JetBrains
Open Source																		+OpenAPI
Implementation language	Java	C#	C#	Perl	Python	Java	Java	Java	Java	Java	Java	C#	Java	C#	Java	Perl	Java	Java
Free			Free 2-user version			Free for Open Source Projects			Free for Open Source Projects						Free for Open Source Projects		Free for Small Teams and Open Source Projects	Free for Open Source Projects
Issue tracker	JIRA	JIRA		Bugzilla	Trac	private	JIRA		Supports	Javaforge			JIRA		Official support	Bugzilla	Jira	Jira
Online demo	here	here	here	Working implementation	Self-hosted	request			here Use demo/domo			Working implementation on Codehaus	here	Eval download	Working implementation	coming soon	coming soon	Online Demo
Number of active developers	5	2	5		1					3			4	1			2	5~7
SCM support
AccuRev
AlienBrain
Bazaar
BitKeeper
ClearCase
CA Harvest
CM Synergy
CVS
Dimensions
"File system SCM"
HTTP file
MKS
Perforce (p4)
PVCS
SourceGear Vault
StarTeam
Subversion
Surround
Team Foundation Server		(via plugin)
VSS
VSS Journal
SCM related support
SCM filtering
Multi-SCM						about
Can create new SCM repositories					Custom command
Build management
Parallel builds (ability to build several projects simultaneously)
Distributed builds
Agents' code auto-updated
Manually force builds				Email										Not needed
SCM trigged builds	(if supported by SCM)
SCM poll based builds				Tinderbox2
Temporal build scheduling
Builds promotion						about
Interproject Dependencies
Builds deletion
Reproduce history builds
Proactive (can prevent build breakages)					"Try" feature
Detect new failing tests while build						(via report)
Notify when first test in build fails
Security
User authentication				For management	Via Twisted											For management
User authorization schemes					HTTP basic, digest											Database		Admin/ Developer/Guest
LDAP Integration					With PAM
Kerebos					With PAM
Single Sign On					With PAM
Custom JAAS
RSA SecureID	?															?
Publishing
Confluence
Email
Run executable
FTP					Custom command
IRC
Jabber
Lotus Sametime
NetSend					Custom command
ProjectStart
RSS					See GNOME
SCP					Custom command
Windows System Tray
Formatted Logging	XML	XML	(In Relational Db)		Twisted Logging					Xml, Html								(In DB)
Yahoo Messenger
MSN Messenger
X10
Web interface
View changesets				Bonsai												Bonsai
Add new projects				"Tree" only	Restart required on Win32											"Tree" only
Clone projects					Restart required on Win32
Delete projects					Doesn't delete files; restart required on Win32
Modify projects					Restart required on Win32
Kill builds
Pause builds
Access to build artifacts
Browse CI's working copy
Delete CI's working copy
Search in builds
Historic graphs
Self-updating web page																		Ajax
Multi project support
Multi project view
Add/remove agent machines (for distributed builds)					Restart required on Win32
Directly supported build tools
Shell / command script
Ant
Groovy
NAnt
Maven
Maven2
Make
MsBuild
Visual Studio ('devenv')						about
Tools integration
ViewCVS
Fisheye
Bonsai
Bugzilla
Scarab
Trac					Buildbot and Trac
sourceforge.net
rubyforge.org
JIRA
Confluence
ClearQuest
JUnit result rendering
NUnit result rendering
Clover result rendering																		about
Selenium result rendering																		about
IntelliJ Plugin
Eclipse Plugin
VS 2005 Plugin
Remote Management API
SOAP			Asynchronous Messaging
XML-RPC			n/a
JMX		N/A	n/a
Hessian			n/a
Client Library						about												OpenAPI
Eclipse ALF
Installation and Configuration
Windows installer
Self contained distribution (except SCM clients)
Additional dependencies	JRE, SCM client	.NET Runtime, IIS, SCM client	.NET Runtime, SQL Server (MSDE Included in distribution)	Perl, CVS	Python, Twisted	JRE, SCM client	JDK, Servlet container, SCM client		jdk, SCM client	jdk,tomcat,SCM client			JRE, SCM client	Subversion, .NET runtime/IIS or Mono/XSP		Perl, CVS, SCP	JDK, some SCM clients	Some SCM clients
Execution platform	JVM	Windows, .NET, Mono	Windows, .NET, Mono	Perl	Python	JVM	JVM		JVM	JVM			JVM	Windows, Linux	Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP UX	Perl	JVM	JVM
Project platform (what it can build)	Java + anything Ant/Maven/NAnt can build	.NET or anything with a command line interface build	Any language	Any language	Any language	Any language	Any language with supplied ant wrapper		Any language	Any language with supplied ant wrapper			Any language	Any language	Any language	(i)Any language	Any Language	Any Language
Preferred build tool	Ant, Maven	Nant	NAnt	Make	Make	Any build tool	Ant		Any build tool	Ant, Maven			Maven 2	Any build tool	Any build tool	Make	Any build tool	Any
Requires modifications to build scripts	NO	NO	NO		No	NO	NO		NO	NO			NO	NO	NO		NO	NO
Supports multiple projects
Automatic configuration from build script													Maven only
Text file configuration	XML	XML	Stored in SQL Db - XML input/export coming soon		Python DSL	XML import/export. Database backend												XML configs for projects

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