We performed a comparison between Sync and SonarQube based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sync comes out on top in this comparison. It is secure and reliable. In addition, it has excellent support and a significant ROI.
"A main feature of Snyk is that when you go with SCA, you do get properly done security composition, also from the licensing and open-source parameters perspective. A lot of companies often use open-source libraries or frameworks in their code, which is a big security concern. Snyk deals with all the things and provides you with a proper report about whether any open-source code or framework that you are using is vulnerable. In that way, Snyk is very good as compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features of Snyk are vulnerability scanning and automation. The automation the solution brings around vulnerability scanning is useful."
"It is one of the best product out there to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities quickly. When we talk about the third-party software vulnerability piece and potentially security issues, it takes the load off the user or developer. They even provide automitigation strategies and an auto-fix feature, which seem to have been adopted pretty well."
"It has improved our vulnerability rating and reduced our vulnerabilities through the tool during the time that we've had it. It's definitely made us more aware, as we have removed scoping for existing vulnerabilities and platforms since we rolled it out up until now."
"Static code analysis is one of the best features of the solution."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Snyk is a developer-friendly product."
"The dependency checks of the libraries are very valuable, but the licensing part is also very important because, with open source components, licensing can be all over the place. Our project is not an open source project, but we do use quite a lot of open source components and we want to make sure that we don't have surprises in there."
"Integrate it into the developers' workbench so that they can bench check their code against what will be done in the server-based audit version."
"Can tweak rules and feed them into our build pipelines."
"The depth features I have found most valuable. You receive a quick comprehensive comparison overview regarding the current release and the last release and what type of depths dependency or duplication should be used. This is going to help you to make a more readable code and have more flexibility for the engineers to understand how things should work when they do not know."
"The most valuable feature of SonarQube I have found to be the configuration that has allowed us to can make adjusts to the demands of the code review. It gives a specified classification regarding the skill, prioritization, and it is easy for me to review and make my code."
"The software quality gate streamlines the product's quality."
"The static code analysis is very good."
"The features of SonarQube that I find most valuable for identifying code smells are its comprehensive code analysis capabilities, which cover various aspects of code sustainability."
"The solution is stable."
"We have seen cases where tools didn't find or recognize certain dependencies. These are known issues, to some extent, due to the complexity in the language or stack that you using. There are some certain circumstances where the tool isn't actually finding what it's supposed to be finding, then it could be misleading."
"Snyk's API and UI features could work better in terms of speed."
"We tried to integrate it into our software development environment but it went really badly. It took a lot of time and prevented the developers from using the IDE. Eventually, we didn't use it in the development area... I would like to see better integrations to help the developers get along better with the tool. And the plugin for the IDE is not so good. This is something we would like to have..."
"Compatibility with other products would be great."
"The log export function could be easier when shipping logs to other platforms such as Splunk."
"The way Snyk notifies if we have an issue, there are a few options: High vulnerability or medium vulnerability. The problem with that is high vulnerabilities are too broad, because there are too many. If you enable notifications, you get a lot of notifications, When you get many notifications, they become irrelevant because they're not specific. I would prefer to have control over the notifications and somehow decide if I want to get only exploitable vulnerabilities or get a specific score for a vulnerability. Right now, we receive too many high vulnerabilities. If we enable notifications, then we just get a lot of spam message. Therefore, we would like some type of filtering system to be built-in for the system to be more precise."
"They were a couple of issues which happened because Snyk lacked some documentation on the integration side. Snyk is lacking a lot of documentation, and I would like to see them improve this. This is where we struggle a bit. For example, if something breaks, we can't figure out how to fix that issue. It may be a very simple thing, but because we don't have the proper documentation around an issue, it takes us a bit longer."
"The documentation sometimes is not relevant. It does not cover the latest updates, scanning, and configurations. The documentation for some things is wrong and does not cover some configuration scannings for the multiple project settings."
"The interface could be a little better and should be enhanced."
"In the next release, I would like to have notifications because now, it is a bit difficult. I think that's a feature which we could add there and it would benefit the users as well. For every full request, they should be able to see their bugs or vulnerability directly on the surface."
"The security in SonarQube could be better."
"I would like to see more options for security, beyond the basics like SQL injection."
"In terms of what can be improved, the areas that need more attention in the solution are its architecture and development."
"SonarQube can improve by scanning the internal library which currently it does not do. We are looking for a solution for this."
"We had some issues scanning the master branch but when we upgraded to version 7.9 we noticed it does scan the master branch but we had to do a workaround for it to happen. This process could be improved in a future release."
"The product's pricing could be lower."
Snyk is ranked 4th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. Snyk is rated 8.2, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". Snyk is most compared with Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and Checkmarx One, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and GitHub Advanced Security. See our Snyk vs. SonarQube report.
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@Tej Muchhala : Code Quality and Security are 2 different domains and depending on how deep you want to go, the choice of tools will vary.
1. SonarQube - This has both community editions and commercial editions. The community has limited scope and no reporting. The enterprise version has a far broader scope covered with excellent reporting capabilities. SQ does have rules to compare against OWASP's Top 10 for both 2017 and 2021. Wrt Code Quality, SQ looks at unit-level issues and not necessarily module/design issues.
2. CAST Software Intelligence - This has 2 products - CAST Highlights can do very rapid analysis and provide you software health and also open source safety assessment for 3rd party libraries you might be using. SQ does not look into 3rd party libraries' assessment. CAST also has a dedicated security dashboard that checks code against various industry standards like OWASP, ISO 5055, CWE Top 25, NIST, etc.
3. Snyk again has multiple products to cater to different areas of security. This is a great product and has seamless integrations into your CI pipeline.
Regards,
Vishal.
Hi Tej, you should also check out CAST (castsoftware.com). Their kit does a very thorough analysis that may be a good option depending on the complexity of your codebase.
Hi Tej, as per my experience, SonarQube provides a better understanding of the code, it gives you a detailed analysis of the code up to the line level. It finds vulnerabilities in the code and runs test cases for you (if you add them). Also, you can customize the quality gate rules to define the parameters your code should pass like reliability, repetition of lines, etc. On the other hand, Snyk offers you an overview of the tools you are using, or the APIs you are using inside the code and gives vulnerability notifications and fixes. SonarQube doesn't fix or doesn't give any suggestions but Snyk will give you suggestions on which version of that dependency should be used and why. I have integrated both Snyk and SonarQube as both are open source up to a certain level.