Adobe, Inc. vs commercetools

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and commercetools (commerce platform for customer-focused industry leaders) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over commercetools (rank #189) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 50). The gap of 11 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 commercetools. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), commercetools is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of commercetools. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of commercetools. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of commercetools.

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. commercetools shows 1,270 stars across 221 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 49.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. commercetools 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.