Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix

There are many Continuous Integration systems available. This page is an attempt to keep an unbiased comparison of as many as possible of them. The goals are:

Make it easier to choose an appropriate CI tool for your project.
"Healthy competition aid" for the people involved in the development of these various CI systems.

Note: In order to be as neutral as possible, it would be favourable if this page was hosted somewhere else, in a publicly available place. Let us know if you have any suggestions regarding this.

Note: If you want a new feature in one of these, please use the respective project's issue trackers. Don't add feature requests here.

Note: If you want to update this page (maybe you are a developer of one of these), just sign up as a user in this Confluence and send an email to aslak dot hellesoy at gmail dot com to request access.

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The feature exists
The feature exists, but is buggy or not well tested
The feature is planned for the near future
The feature doesn't exist

WARNING: THE CURRENT DC 0.5 BRANCH CURRENTLY LACKS A LOT OF THESE FEATURES DUE TO AN ONGOING REDESIGN. THE GOAL IS TO MAKE THEM REAPPEAR BEFORE dc 0.6 IS RELEASED

	CruiseControl	CruiseControl.NET	DamageControl	Tinderbox	BuildBot	Anthill Professional	Anthill	BeetleJuice	LuntBuild	Gump	Draco.NET	Continuum
Project info
Project origin	ThoughtWorks	ThoughtWorks	ThoughtWorks	?	?	Urbancode	Urbancode	?	PMEase	?	?	Apache
Open Source
Implementation language	Java	C#	Ruby	Perl	Python	Java	Java	Java	Java	Java	C#	Java
Free						Free for Open Source Projects
Issue tracker	JIRA	JIRA	JIRA	?	?	JIRA	JIRA	?	SourceForge	?	?	JIRA
Online demo	here	here	open authenticated	?	?			?	Use demo/domo	?	?
Number of active developers	5	2	3	?	?	?	?	?	2	?	?	4
SCM support
AccuRev	2.2.2	?	?	?	?			?		?	?
ClearCase				?	?			?		?	?
CVS				?	?			?		?	?
"File system SCM"				?	?			?		?	?
HTTP file				?	?			?		?	?
MKS				?	?			?		?	?	?
Perforce (p4)				?	?			?		?	?
PVCS				?	?			?		?	?
SourceGear Vault				?	?			?		?	?	?
StarTeam				?	?			?		?	?
Subversion				?	?			?		?	?
Surround				?	?			?		?	?	?
VSS				?	?			?		?	?
VSS Journal				?	?	?	?	?		?	?	?
SCM related support
SCM filtering				?	?			?		?	?	?
Multi-SCM				?	?			?		?	?	?
Can create new SCM repositories			Via web admin	?	?			?		?	?
Build management
Parallel builds (ability to build several projects simultaneously)				?	?			?		?	?
Distributed builds	read how they did it at SAS			?	?			?		?	?
Manually force builds				?	?			?		?	?
SCM trigged builds	CVS only		(if supported by SCM)	?	?			?		?	?
SCM poll based builds				?	?			?		?	?
Temporal build scheduling				?	?			?		?	?
Builds promotion		?	?	?	?			?		?	?
Builds deletion		?	?	?	?			?		?	?
reproduce history builds				?	?			?		?	?
Security
User authentication			Apache recommended	?	?			?		?	?
User authorization schemes				?	?			?		?	?
Publishing
Confluence				?	?			?		?	?	?
Email				?	?			?		?	?
Run executable				?	?			?		?	?
FTP				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
IRC				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Jabber				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Lotus Sametime				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
NetSend				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
ProjectStart				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
RSS				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
SCP				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Windows System Tray				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Formatted Logging	XML	XML	YAML	?	?			?		?	?
Yahoo Messenger				?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
MSN Messenger	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
X10				?	?	?	?	?		?	?	?
Web interface
View changesets				?	?			?		?	?
Add new projects				?	?			?		?	?
Clone projects				?	?			?		?	?
Delete projects				?	?			?		?	?
Modify projects				?	?			?		?	?
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				?	?			?		?	?
Multi project support				?	?			?		?	?
Multi project view				?	?			?		?	?
Directly supported build tools
Shell / command script				?	?			?		?	?
Ant				?	?			?		?	?
NAnt				?	?			?		?	?
Maven				?	?			?		?	?
Maven2
Make				?	?			?		?	?
Visual Studio ('devenv')				?	?			?		?	?
Tools integration
ViewCVS				?	?			?		?	?
Fisheye				?	?			?		?	?
Bugzilla				?	?			?		?	?
Scarab
Trac
sourceforge.net
rubyforge.org
JIRA				?	?			?		?	?
Confluence				?	?			?		?	?
JUnit result rendering				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
NUnit result rendering				?	?	?	?	?		?	?
IntelliJ Plugin				?	?			?		?	?
Eclipse Plugin				?	?			?		?	?
Remote Management API
SOAP				?	?			?		?	?
XML-RPC				?	?			?		?	?
JMX		N/A	N/A	?	?			?		?	?
Hessian	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?
Installation and Configuration
Windows installer				?	?			?		?	?
Self contained distribution (except SCM clients)	2.2.2			?	?			?		?	?
Additional dependencies	JRE, Servlet container, SCM client	.NET Runtime, IIS, SCM client	SCM client	?	?	JDK, Servlet container, SCM client	JDK, Servlet container, SCM client	?	jdk,tomcat,SCM client	?	?	JRE, SCM client
Execution platform	Anything that can run a JVM	Windows	Anything that can run Ruby	?	?	Anything that can run a JVM	Anything that can run a JVM	?	Anything that can run a JVM	?	?	Anything that can run a JVM
Project platform (what it can build)	Java, C++, anything Ant/Maven/NAnt can build	.NET or anything with a command line interface build	Any language	?	?	Any language	Any language with supplied ant wrapper	?	Any language with supplied ant wrapper	?	?	Any language
Preferred build tool	Ant, Maven	Nant	Any build tool	?	?	Any build tool	Ant	?	Ant	?	?	Maven 2
Requires modifications to build scripts	NO	NO (for certain SCMs)	NO	?	?	NO	NO	?	slight modification	?	?	NO
Supports multiple projects				?	?			?		?	?
Automatic configuration from build script												Maven only
Text file configuration	XML	XML	YAML	?	?			?		?	?