Liquibase vs. Redgate Flyway

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Liquibase
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Liquibase is a database change management tool that helps 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 delivers DevOps for the database. Liquibase value proposition: Liquibase speeds up the development process. The…
$5,000
per year
Redgate Flyway
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Flyway, by Redgate, automates database deployments across teams and technologies. It is a database devops solution that is used to accelerate software delivery and ensure quality code.
$0
Pricing
LiquibaseRedgate Flyway
Editions & Modules
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Community Edition
$0
Teams Edition
$3,000
per year at least 10 schemas in production
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LiquibaseRedgate Flyway
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
LiquibaseRedgate Flyway
Considered Both Products
Liquibase
Chose Liquibase
Liquibase provide rollback feature more matured than others.
Chose Liquibase
Excellent downtime, community, and support.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Chose Liquibase
More configurable and more flexible. Might include solutions for NoSql in the future. A couple of useful plugins (hibernate integration, for example).
Chose Liquibase
Liquibase has better options than Flyway software. Liquibase seems to have everything Flyway has and more flexibility when it comes to rollbacks. The main advantage of just Flyway seems to be not having to use XML, but Liquibase allows you to specify an SQL file in their XML. …
Chose Liquibase
The main reason for Liquibase and against Flyway is the independence of the RDBMS product used.
Chose Liquibase
Liquibase has a more robust feature set including schema definitions in XML, JSON, and YAML. Liquibase Hub provides a better view of deployment status.
Redgate Flyway

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User Ratings
LiquibaseRedgate Flyway
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(50 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(48 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LiquibaseRedgate Flyway
Likelihood to Recommend
Liquibase
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.
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Redgate
Database Migrations on Java-based solutions. It has one of the best integrations with it as a database migration tool, you can do it with the community edition (no pricing involved) and it works flawlessly with Maven and Gradle. It's not an expensive tool in order to use the next level of features and is worth the money. I would recommend reaching that edition level as the object mapping feature gets really handy. I would not recommend it for any Microsoft-based solution (.Net) as is not compatible at all based on my experience, this is a tool only worth it with Java applications.
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Pros
Liquibase
  • 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.
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Redgate
  • Supports many databases
  • Community version uses Apache license
  • Widely used, good community support
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Cons
Liquibase
  • 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.
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Redgate
  • GUI could be more user friendly
  • Applying patch scripts on a blank DB differs from on a DB with data, so the migration could still fail when all tests passed
  • Configurations options could be more flexible / powerful
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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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Redgate
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Usability
Liquibase
Build process is too time consuming and getting extra DB instance takes a toll
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Redgate
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Support Rating
Liquibase
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.
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Redgate
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Liquibase
the database deployments helped us with increased productivity,
faster delivery and low risk.
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Redgate
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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Redgate
The problem with a cloud-based tool for migration services is the cloud dependency. You are restricted to use the tool along the Cloud provider. Flyway gives you the freedom to use it in any scenario as long as you are working with a compatible database engine. Even if you are working on-premise and you don't have plans to move to a cloud architecture. Or even for sandbox development scenarios where you are a developer playing around with some project ideas. And you don't have to pay anything as long as you need advanced features, and not less importantly, you are using an open-source tool.
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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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Redgate
  • Reduced our effort for release processes.
  • Easy to setup - less than 5 minutes.
  • Improve reliability of our databases.
  • Easy backup and version control.
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