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.

Legend:
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	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	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#	Ruby	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	JIRA	?	Bugzilla	?	private	JIRA	?	Supports	SourceForge	?	?	JIRA		Official support	Bugzilla	Jira	Jira
Online demo	here	here	open authenticated	here	Working implementation	?	request		?	here	Use demo/domo	?	?	Working implementation on Codehaus	here	Eval download	Working implementation	coming soon	Online Demo
Number of active developers	5	2	3	5	?	?	?	?	?	?	2	?	?	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			Via web admin	?		?			?			?	?
Build management
Parallel builds (ability to build several projects simultaneously)						?			?			?	?
Distributed builds						?			?			?	?
Agents' code auto-updated	?	?	?	?		?	(3.2)		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Manually force builds					Email	?			?			?	?		Not needed
SCM trigged builds	(if supported by SCM)		(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)		?	?			?			?	?	?	?	?	?
Detect new failing tests while build	?	?	?	?	?	?	(via report)		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Notify when first test in build fails	?	?	?	?	?	?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Security
User authentication			Apache recommended		For management	?			?			?	?				For management
User authorization schemes					?	?			?			?	?				Database		Admin/ Developer/Guest
LDAP Integration			?		?	?			?	?		?	?				?
Publishing
Confluence				?		?			?			?	?	?
Email						?			?			?	?
Run executable						?			?			?	?
FTP						?			?			?	?
IRC				?		?			?			?	?
Jabber				?		?			?			?	?
Lotus Sametime						?			?			?	?
NetSend						?			?			?	?
ProjectStart						?			?			?	?
RSS						?			?			?	?
SCP				?		?			?			?	?
Windows System Tray						?			?			?	?
Formatted Logging	XML	XML	YAML	(In Relational Db)		?			?		Xml, Html	?	?						(In DB)
Yahoo Messenger				?		?				?			?
MSN Messenger	?	?	?	?		?			?			?	?
X10						?			?			?	?	?
Web interface
View changesets					Bonsai	?			?			?	?				Bonsai
Add new projects					"Tree" only	?			?			?	?				"Tree" only
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						?			?			?	?						Ajax
Multi project support						?			?			?	?
Multi project view						?			?			?	?
Add/remove agent machines (for distributed builds)	?	?	?	?		?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Directly supported build tools
Shell / command script						?			?			?	?
Ant						?			?			?	?
Groovy
NAnt						?			?			?	?
Maven						?			?			?	?
Maven2
Make						?			?	?		?	?
Visual Studio ('devenv')						?	about		?	?		?	?
Tools integration
ViewCVS				?		?			?			?	?
Fisheye						?			?			?	?
Bonsai	?	?	?			?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Bugzilla						?			?			?	?
Scarab						?			?		?	?	?
Trac				?		?			?	?	?	?	?
sourceforge.net				?		?			?	?	?	?	?
rubyforge.org				?		?			?	?	?	?	?
JIRA						?			?			?	?
Confluence						?			?			?	?
JUnit result rendering						?			?			?	?
NUnit result rendering						?			?			?	?
Clover result rendering	?	?	?	?	?	?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Selenium result rendering	?	?	?	?	?	?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
IntelliJ Plugin				?		?			?			?	?
Eclipse Plugin						?			?			?	?
VS 2005 Plugin	?	?	?	?	?	?			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Remote Management API
SOAP				Asynchronous Messaging		?			?			?	?	?
XML-RPC				n/a		?			?			?	?
JMX		N/A	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	SCM client	.NET Runtime, SQL Server (MSDE Included in distribution)	Perl, CVS	?	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	Ruby	Windows, .NET, Mono	Perl	?	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	Any build tool	NAnt	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	YAML	Stored in SQL Db - XML input/export coming soon		?	XML import/export. Database backend		?			?	?						XML configs for projects