Likelihood to Recommend As any other archiving solution, it is very well suited for environments with a large footprint of unstructured data (CIFS / NFS shares for user data) with a large amount of unused/old files and a need to keep those unused files for long term. In our scenario, due to some legal and contractual constraints we need to keep these files for 15 years. Archiving is a good choice to move the unused files to a cheaper storage tier, both on-prem or cloud.
Read full review Store versions of DB's and Schemas this is useful for every software developer company that works with Databases. Now days al the software use a DB and control those changes are a must. have the power to rollback safe has change the way that we work. This increase speed in development while increase the business confidence.
Read full review Pros It gives you a good overview on user data: files age, sizes, file types, owners, etc. It is very flexible on the archiving policies. The data scans are really fast without affecting storage's performance. It has a great alternative to STUB files, which they call 'bread crumbs' (symlinks to files). Read full review It's a useful tool for managing database versions and aiding in the development of database CI/CD pipelines. The deployment and management of database updates are simple. It provides quality checks to spot problems in DB scripts and DB pipeline views to track changes made to DB. Read full review Cons Its licensing plan, which takes into account the amount of data analyzed instead of data transferred. Read full review Reducing Compatibility issues, when we upgraded Liquibase from 4.2 to 4.9. The same changeset which we were able to run on successfully using 4.2, part of it was now failing when tried to deploy using 4.9 We are not able to see detailed logs (for different changes) in uDeploy when deploying changes through Liquibase Liquibase should rollback the if any one of the changes fails. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review Usability Build process is too time consuming and getting extra DB instance takes a toll
Read full review Support Rating Liquibase's customer support is at the top of my list of all vendors I've ever worked with over my 12 years of experience. They work directly with you to be successful, and response time is second to none. Liquibase is committed to getting customers up and running and - more importantly - successful in their organization and becoming champions of the product.
Read full review Implementation Rating the database deployments helped us with increased productivity, faster delivery and low risk.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We have used
Veritas Enterprise Vault in the past, and besides its being a well-known player on the data archiving market, their tool is far more complex to implement, to manage and to keep working. Komprise is very robust and also very easy to implement, as most part of the job is done on Komprise side. The management console is delivered through a public URL as a SaaS platform. You only need to deploy a few VMs for scan/archiving/user access, which they call "Observer VMs." Komprise also doesn't uses Stub files, which is a poor implementation adopted by the competitor for file access. We had a lot of issues in the past with stub files. Komprise has implemented 'bread crumbs', which are CIFS symlinks to the files on the Observer. It is a very good implementation and it works really well.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Return on Investment It allowed us to free up some space on our main storage during a time where we didn't have the budget to expand it. It allows us to move unused data to a cheaper storage tier (Azure Blobs). Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots