title: Should we use Nexus or Artifactory for a Maven Repo?
body: <p>We are using Maven for a large build process (> 100 modules). We have been storing our external dependencies in source control, and using that to update a local repo.</p>
  
  <p>However, we are ready to graduate to a local repo that can cache central so that we don't have to proactively download all 3rd parties (but we can still have a local repo to pull from). In addition we want to publish our internal build artifacts from a nightly build so that developers don't have to build the world.</p>
  
  <p>We are considering Nexus and Artifactory. What are the reasons for preferring one over the other? Are there others we should be considering?</p>