Adobe, Inc. vs BigCommerce

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and BigCommerce both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a narrow lead over BigCommerce (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 55). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of BigCommerce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), BigCommerce is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of BigCommerce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of BigCommerce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of BigCommerce.

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. BigCommerce shows 3,505 stars across 281 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 18.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. BigCommerce looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.