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    Liquibase

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Liquibase is a database change management tool that extends DevOps best practices to the database, helping teams release software faster and safer by bringing the database change process into existing CI/CD automation. According to the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, elite performers are 3.4 times more likely to incorporate database change management into their process than low performers. Liquibase value proposition: Liquibase speeds up the development…N/A
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    Liquibase
    Considered Both Products
    Liquibase
    Chose Liquibase
    flyway use sql for defining change but Liquidbase provides flexibility to specify change in different formats including sql such as xml, yaml and json
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    Chose Liquibase
    With Flyway you need to Write rollback scripts manually. With Liquibase we have a lot of customization with to rollback with options such rollback-one-changeset or rollback-one-update.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase supports a wide range of database management systems (DBMS) including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and more. It is written in Java and offers command-line, XML, YAML, and JSON configurations. where as Alembic is primarily targeted at SQLAlchemy users, which …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    We do an initial test but Liquibase show more features. So we stop the testing
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    There is no real competitor when it comes to what Liquibase does - at least not at the time we considered it three years ago. It was an easy choice in this regard, but we could have said no to it if it made our workload more difficult. But our proof of concept showed there were …
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    Chose Liquibase
    Utilized ADO Repos to create DDL/DML scripts and run thru CI/CD pipeline
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    Chose Liquibase
    We adopted Liquibase to complete our Ci/Cd scenarios. Without Liquibase, DB changes were out to scope in our DevOps scenarios. Log and accountability are more clear now.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase provide rollback feature more matured than others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    We like stateless deployment and it helps us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    We evaluated none of the ones mentioned in this list.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    It is not the same scope
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase makes it easy to integrate into CI/CD pipelines, keeping the database and code in sync. The switch from one database management system to another is made easier by modeling the structure of the database in DBMS-independent XML rather than SQL. A user-friendly web …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase is much more powerful compared to Flyway since it is much more flexible in nature. You can apply changes programmatically, works with any kind of database and provides features version controlling database schemas. All these features were missing in Flyway and that's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    To be honest, the option of having a free community plan to start testing in a test environment, followed by taking it in production a few months is a great way to evaluate wether or not to do the subscription based plan.
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    We didn't try any other products.
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    Chose Liquibase
    I didn't encounter similair or competitor product
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase is preferred over Flyway if your engineers doesn’t have knowledge in the DDL language used in each database product supported. If you only need to support a single database product and your engineers have the skills I would recommend Flyway instead. Liquibase is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Both liquibase and Flyway help you deploy database changes associated with new application deployments. They will both help with reducing database administration tasks and ensure reliability of the application service. Comparing Liquibase and Flyway, I found liquibase to be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    These other products were for infrastucture as code and not as well-suited for managing database changes; instead Liquibase was more oriented towards it and was easier to pick up its syntax also.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Supports many languages like yml, sql, json. You only need a tool for everything.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Because of its multiple advanced featured such as forecasting, reporting, stored logics versions handling process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    Liquibase is head and shoulders better than relying on SQL Compare alone for deployments. I haven't used Flyway, but based on our evaluation, Liquibase seemed to have a lot of functional overlap for considerably less cost. I would recommend the use of GitHub or Bitbucket in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Liquibase
    At the time, Liquibase offered a community version and I think Flyway didn’t. In our case, we did not have any previous experience with any database management tools, so we just went with what was free to try out.
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials
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    User Ratings
    Liquibase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (59 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (57 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Liquibase
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Liquibase
    Based on my experience so far on using Liquibase in my current project, I have seen that Liquibase changelogs are version control where multiple team members and developers can work together on database and deployed automatically via CI/CD Pipeline integration using github actions and it applies same changelogs to all enviroments to remain in sync and avoid any enviroment drift. Also as Liquibase stores changelog audits in DATABASECHANGELOG table it helps in tracking purposes and to easily rollback any change . Whereas in some scenarios I feel that Liquibase have some drawbacks where if complex transformation between tables is not optimized for bulk data operations which eventually degrades database performance.
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    Pros
    Liquibase
    • Liquibase tracks changes in a metadata table contained directly in the target database, making easy administration for the DBA.
    • Liquibase handles many validation tests out of the box, making it easy to choose which ones you want to include, with options for writing your own if you choose. This makes it robust and flexible in terms of validation before deployment.
    • Liquibase provides easy integration into deployment pipelines for CI/CD. We use it with GitHub for source control and Circle CI for validation and deployment pipelines.
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    Cons
    Liquibase
    • I would like Liquibase to explore all errors in the changelog files compared to one at a time. We spent a lot of time troubleshooting one error at a time versus having a batch log of errors in each file.
    • Understanding where to get support on things. I spent a lot of time researching externally to learn what the best practices were. Although I found some of the youtube videos helpful, I would like a little more of a technical support. This may be a feature with the paid tier, however, we leveraged open source.
    • Seeing more examples of how others use Liquibase and their usecases will be helpful. That way we can learn from each other which may help us improve on our own deployments.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Liquibase
    We are and will continue using Liquibase and it has become an integral part of our portfolio offering, any new product is by default adopting Liquibase stack.
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    Usability
    Liquibase
    Build process is too time consuming and getting extra DB instance takes a toll
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    Support Rating
    Liquibase
    Liquibase has been responsive and even is letting our group test some new products they are developing and even made code changes to their production system because of a couple bugs we have reported. Liquibase licensing has also been easy and simple. I have nothing bad to say about any of the Liquibase staff I have talked to. They also hold free information webinars for new content that helps spread adoption and moving the product forward.
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    Implementation Rating
    Liquibase
    the database deployments helped us with increased productivity,
    faster delivery and low risk.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Liquibase
    There is no real competitor when it comes to what Liquibase does - at least not at the time we considered it three years ago. It was an easy choice in this regard, but we could have said no to it if it made our workload more difficult. But our proof of concept showed there were easy wins to be had by implementing its software.
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    Return on Investment
    Liquibase
    • We need to re-educate developers to use Liquibase.
    • In some cases, it is hard to align when several teams work on the same DB.
    • On the other hand, Liquibase provides order and consistency in managing DB changes.
    • Evidence and traceability are a plus.
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