title: How does Archiva compare to Nexus?
body: <p>There are a few similar questions already, but most are either focused on Nexus vs. Artifactory, or are a few years old.</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to get a sense of where the two project stand these days.  My impression is that Nexus is the best regarded repository manager, but I do tend to (slightly) prefer purely Free projects (hey, <em>a little</em> ideology never hurt anyone).</p>
  
  <p>My use-case is pretty simple: I just want an on-demand dependency cache, with half a dozen of our own artifacts.  I'll be using it with Ivy (not Maven), we don't do automated builds, and it will only be a couple of developers using it. So I'm also wondering if Nexus' more advanced features are something I won't need anyway.</p>
  
  <p>Anything I should be aware of before making the choice?</p>