Dist vs. Harbor vs. PyPI vs. Python Comparison Chart

Highly available and super fast artifact repositories and container registries that keep your developers, operations teams, and customers happy and productive. Dist is the simplest and most reliable way to securely distribute Docker container images and Maven artifacts across your team, systems, and customers. Our purpose-built edge network ensures optimal performance, wherever your team and customers are. Dist is fully managed in the cloud. We take care of operations, maintenance, and backups so you can focus on your business. Restrict access to repositories by users and groups. Each user can further compartmentalize their own access using access tokens. All artifacts, container images, and their associated metadata are encrypted at rest and in transit.

PyPI is the official repository for Python software packages, hosting hundreds of thousands of projects that developers can publish and users can discover and install. It supports both source distributions (“sdists”) and pre-built binary “wheels”, allowing packages to include native extensions for different platforms. Projects on PyPI consist of multiple releases, each of which can include various files for different operating systems or Python versions. Metadata for each package includes things like version number, dependencies, licensing, classifiers, description (including rendering Markdown or reStructuredText), and other information that tools like pip use to resolve, download, and install the correct package. PyPI provides search and filtering based on package metadata, letting users find what they need via keywords, compatibility, or other package attributes.