Composer vs. IBM DevOps Code ClearCase

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Composer
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Composer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A
IBM DevOps Code ClearCase
Score 9.5 out of 10
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An enterprise-grade configuration management system that provides controlled access to software assets.N/A
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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ComposerIBM DevOps Code ClearCase
Considered Both Products
Composer
Chose Composer
If you're familiar with NPM or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some …
IBM DevOps Code ClearCase
Chose IBM DevOps Code ClearCase
GIT Stash is superior to IBM Rational ClearCase in many ways. Bundled with SourceTree, the UI is far more modernized and updated than IBM Rational ClearCase. Being able to visually see the individual branches that are created within the repository is much more straightforward …
Chose IBM DevOps Code ClearCase
If development is centrallized to one location and your company releases hundreds of customized versions of your software per year, then ClearCase is the best tool for managing the complexity of multiple versions of customized software. If your company has globally distributed …
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User Testimonials
ComposerIBM DevOps Code ClearCase
Likelihood to Recommend
It can/must be used for any size of software project. Not only provides the best way to control depencies, but also has a strong worldwide community of developers.
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Rational ClearCase is well suited for a company where development is done from one single location and there are a lot of dependent projects, systems or modules that need to be version controlled. Especially good for a company that creates customized software for clients. Well suited for disciplined development environments. Waterfall methodology mentality seems a better fit for ClearCase than Agile.

ClearCase is not well suited for companies that have development geographically distributed and using Agile Methodologies.
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Pros
  • Controlling dependencies
  • Fast dependency resolver
  • Easy to use dependency injection
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  • Rational ClearCase is excellent for handling versioning and branching. No other tool I've used has the depth that ClearCase has when it comes to handling complex branching scenarios and identifying where certain versions of particular files are within a particular configuration.
  • Rational ClearCase handles parallel development of many dependent applications really well.
  • The use of ClearCase Views to switch between projects and configurations is extremely convenient as opposed to the local workstation model of the competitors.
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Cons
  • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
  • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
  • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
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  • Extremely buggy.
  • Sometimes the repository gets locked for no reason.
  • Slow.
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Alternatives Considered
If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
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GIT Stash is superior to IBM Rational ClearCase in many ways. Bundled with SourceTree, the UI is far more modernized and updated than IBM Rational ClearCase. Being able to visually see the individual branches that are created within the repository is much more straightforward than the versioning method of ClearCase. GIT also seems to be a lot faster when it comes to checking in/out code and creating the repository.
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Return on Investment
  • Helped us reduce the TTM of our ecommerce factory by about 40% since we adopted it
  • Code re-usability became the norm, and thus much shorter development cycles
  • New websites go live much faster, and thus cost way less money to make when reusing composer modules (SSO, CRM integration, modules to call Internal APIs ...)
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  • Managed code versioning for many years.
  • Only one person can edit code at a time - slows processing down.
  • IBM is an expensive product to support.
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