Liquibase Reviews

Easy to get started and run from the command line. The compatibility with databases from H2, MySQL to Oracle is a plus. Also, top notch documentation! The Liquibase University sets it apart from the rest.

A learning curve is experienced to grasp the concepts and apply them in real-world scenario. However, this is circumvented by the self-paced learning and well-detailed docs.

Liquibase comes in handy in database migration for Oracle Enterprise . Eradicates errors by verifying the raw SQL before running update command. Logs generated are helpful in troubleshooting.

Its good tool to manage database version and help to build CI/CD pipe line for Database. It's easy to manage and deploy the database updates.

Setup is little bit complex and rollback process it very difficult. Not managing store procedures properly.

Its help us to give clients update through the jenkins pipeline and reduces the manual efforts.

The multi-DB support and the support of different rollback scenarios are I think one of the features that are useful. They also listen to their customers and I think the quality metrics feature provides the ability for us to apply organization-specific rules and coding standards.

What is least helpful is that it does not support enough on multi-schema. We have to call the CLI multiple times to run multiple schemas. Also, it would be great if there is an easy way or guidance to build custom solution on top of the Liquibase framework using features that comes with the pro license.

Automated execution makes deployment faster.

.it offers quality checks for DB scripts which helps catch errors also DB pipelines views for changes deployed to DB

Very few features enabled in community version

Devops pipelines integration for db deployment

Automation and security around DBA tasks

Vertica DBMS support is not very robust.

Updated extension support and testing. Documentation and examples are always good.

Maintaining a record of changes, creating the necessary audit trail Poweful db admin tool.

Deploying the DB table/scripts changes along with new build while promoting to higher environments by handling version tracking.

Error logging for version mismatch can be improved. Load Update Data does CSV files loading but delete option is missing for the data uploaded.

Handling Table creation, modification, CSV files loading to tables and promoting the same changes to higher environments while deploying.

Version control Management and promoting the changes to all environments along with build.

Data load for the table through CSV is available, but could not find remove option.

Deploying table creation, changes along with static data loading for tables by using liquibase versioning.

Recently our company has approved to use the tool in the cloud using Azure Devops pipeline for PostgreSQL. And it does great to build a database environment. Liquibase with dockerization acting as a sandbox works perfect for the target deployment.

Maven has some additional features, nice to have overwriteFile:true during diffChangeLog.

CI/CD has made life easy for Database schema deployment in various DBMSs.

Liquibase provides Seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring code and database remain in lockstep. Modeling database structure in DBMS agnostic XML instead of SQL helps ease the transition from one DBMS to another. A friendly web console provides a view into which environments have received a specific changeset, enabling a complete view of the database landscape. Finally, their support is on-point! Very friendly support from knowledgable people who are obviously passionate about this product.

There's no easy way to see the current state of the database schema with Liquibase. This limitation makes it difficult to compare the differences between two different database schemas. This is not a significant problem, but just one small thing we lost in the transition.

I highly recommend having a conversation with Liquibase Personnel about best practices, etc. They are very knowledgable and can help ensure you get off on the right foot.

We have moved our database deployments to our CI/CD Pipeline and away from a more manual approach. This update provides better security and ensures consistency between code and schema.