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* Bazel offer much more granular caching, because a Bazel BUILD target is often much smaller than a Maven artifact. For example: a Java BUILD target is often just a single package.

* SNAPSHOT maven artifact are not hermetic and not reliable for caching: Maven only re-fetch SNAPSHOT once a day by defaults, so you will miss changes if you do not explicitly update it. In Bazel, any changes in a BUILD target's input are detected immediately and will trigger a rebuild.




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