# Apache Archiva Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Build Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/build-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Apache Archiva Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software designed to help taking care of personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. ## Apache Archiva Reviews ### 1. Reliable Repository Manager for Zynga **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** As a Senior Software Engineer at Zynga Games, I have had the opportunity to work with various tools and technologies to ensure the efficient management of our software projects. One such tool that has consistently proven its worth in our development workflow is Apache Archiva. >Ease of Setup and Configuration > Reliable Artifact Storage and Retrieval - It ensures that our artifacts are securely stored and can be easily retrieved by our build and deployment pipelines, leading to a smoother and more reliable release process. >Granular Access Control - Apache Archiva seamlessly integrates with other development tools like Jenkins. This integration has allowed us to automate various aspects of our build and deployment processes & reducing manual intervention **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** > UI is not intuitive. I would like the UI to be improved > I would also liked if the community was more active & had more resources **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** >Dependency Management - It helps manage the dependencies by providing a centralised repository > Archiva serves as a secure and organized repository for storing artifacts >rchiva integrates seamlessly with build tools like Jenkins and leads to lesser human intervention. ### 2. centrally manage repos and suitable for internal use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sravan Kumar K. | Desktop Support Engineer 1, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** Repos can be hosted and managed centrally. it is very easy to configure and upload the repo artifacts. We drag and drop repositories and artifacts. It also has a group id and a version number, enabling us to organize it quickly. With the proxy connector, we can create a link between the repo that is hosted in Archiva and the remote repository using the URL. It has a caching feature that gives good performance and reduces connection time. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** No Dislikes on Apache archive. it's just that GUI needs to improve. The current GUI feels old. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proxy connector and caching. With caching, it takes less time to initialize the connect and performs well. ### 3. Enhancing Apache Archiva UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Casey B. | Director of Operations, Restaurants, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** Ive been quite impressed by Apache Archiva, a remarkable tool. One of its standout characteristics is its nice interface, which offers a good experience. There is need for improvement even though the GUI is already fantastic. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** I have noticed some aspects of Apache Archiva that need improvement. The proxy connector and caching feature, while useful, have resulted in longer initialization times, which has had a negative impact on whole performance. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its exceptional ability to manage and organize software artifacts has brought a new level of efficiency and reliability to our work. With Archivas well integration with various tools, our development process has become remarkably smoother, leading to substantial time and resource savings. ### 4. Automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruchi T. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** Good for day to day use in devops to build the artifacts **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** Nothing as of now. Need to use more to find any dislike **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation stuff , I have used in live project for building the artifacts ### 5. Apache Archiva review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MOISES V. | Moisés, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** You can manage a lot repositories business in one application **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** UI Apache Archiva is a little old. Apache archiva should incorporate more types repositories technlogies. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build automation and manage repositories ### 6. Recommended to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** It's the most powerful and scalable among all concurrents **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** I dislike UX interface solution. I think i's a little bit old **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store all our artifacts in Archiva in the secure and solid manner ### 7. Good productasy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandru Marian S. | Java Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** easy to use, nice interface, good documentation **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** Multitenancy was hard to achieve for our project **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting artifacts for customers ### 8. Open Source artifact reposistory **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** I have used in my organisation as it is free of cost and any user can work on this artifact reposistory without even learning much of it **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** Nothing as per my observation, instead I will recommend those who looks for open source . **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used for artifacts management purpose. ### 9. Manage all your dependencies at one single location. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhanushka S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** I like Overall depency management system. Apart from that, I like dependency graph which we can see the relationship between dependencies. Also I like user and role management; repository management, in our case we used Archiva internal and snapshot repositories. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** I would like, if you could improve costumer support little bit more. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Archiva:** It's easy to implement and work...🙂 **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is able to manage company related dependencies at a centralized location. 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Archiva - Best Artifact repo **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sainadh M. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** The detailed directory structure and its integration with CI tools is very easy. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** The UI seems to be outdated and need some fresh designing **Recommendations to others considering Apache Archiva:** best tool if you need an easy going environment **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solved the problem of Manual transfer of deployables and ease of usage ### 11. Apache Archiva **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** I like the details that Apache Archiva provides about an artifact. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** If you want to delete multiple artifacts at the same time, you need to go through one by one. Instead if there is a way to select multiple repositories and click on delete, it would have been better. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** For maintaining artifacts. ### 12. Maven's best friend **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lawrence S. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** Easy to setup and use across the whole development team. We were able to get it running in development and production to get the environments to use the same artifacts. Using it with a CI/CD tool like Jenkins is helpful as well since the deployments can pull the artifacts from the same repository. **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** Although the UI is a little bit outdated compared to newer tools like JFrog, it can be cumbersome to use if someone on the team overwrote an old artifact when someone on the team forgets to change the version. **Recommendations to others considering Apache Archiva:** I would compare it against other artifact repositories such as JFrog and see if the features that Apache Archiva fits your requirements. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that we were solving was having a single place to be the repository for the artifacts that we were all using throughout the team and be consistent between development and production environments. The benefits were ease of use which sped up development across the projects. ### 13. Apache archive easy , reliable , free and best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABHISHEK K. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** This is really good open source and it is very easy ,robust to use . I have used in my organisation as it is free of cost and any user can work on this artifact reposistory without even learning much of it . it is always upto date so it has all the latest features in it **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** As such i dont dislike the product but there are many issues which i faced couple of times to resolve it and i have restart the process in order to resolve locking of user issue specifically **Recommendations to others considering Apache Archiva:** This is really good open source and it is very easy ,robust to use . I have used in my organisation as it is free of cost and any user can work on this artifact reposistory without even learning much of it . it is always upto date so it has all the latest features in it . It is really awesome and i would recommend every one to use this product as it is quite flexible as well **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the artifacts were never been published earlier in any repository but since we have started using it we are seeing lot of good and efficent way of building and storing the artifacts which impoved lot of help for configuration management team ### 14. This software is bae (Build Archive Excellence) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Apache Archiva?** I like that Apache Archiva is open source and continually updated **What do you dislike about Apache Archiva?** It has a small learning curve and takes a little bit of technical expertise to set up. **What problems is Apache Archiva solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a consulting firm, we utilize Archiva as a sharing repository to review clients' work and suggest improvements ## Apache Archiva Discussions - [What is Apache Archiva used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-archiva-used-for) - [View Apache Archiva pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-archiva/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+05%3A12%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=36fdc06f-c41a-4899-a735-a38dec3f84f2&secure%5Btoken%5D=cff6a352a3b33aeef4a2d3a0ee14088d9a0ddf7704fb8ecb67d7eb547084747b&format=llm_user) ## Top Apache Archiva Alternatives - [Sonatype Nexus Repository](https://www.g2.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (21 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,278 reviews) - [CircleCI](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (499 reviews)