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Liquibase

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What is Liquibase?

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…

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.liquibase.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $5,000 per year
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What is Liquibase?

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 vendor states that teams that use Liquibase deploy 233% more often. Liquibase helps teams break through the database bottleneck of manual reviews to get features to customers faster.

  • Liquibase aims to eliminate database code errors, boasting a 94% reduction in errors. Liquibase allows teams to fully test and roll back database changes before they get to production.

  • Liquibase empowers teams to collaborate. By treating database code like application code, Liquibase is designed to make it easier for app developers to work with the database team leveraging the same tools that they’re already comfortable with.

  • No one enjoys missing date night or a dance recital because the database deployment failed. Many teams rely on DBAs and database developers to fix issues and manually review code 24/7. Liquibase helps automate tedious manual, error-prone processes so that the database team can focus on more important tasks.

Liquibase Editions

Liquibase offers several editions to meet the needs of developers, software teams, and organizations of all shapes and sizes.

Solutions Ideal for Cloud Native and Hybrid Data Applications

Liquibase Open Source

The Liquibase Open Source project started in 2006. Downloaded over 100M times, it continues to be the most powerful and most widely used open source database version control software for developers on the planet. Liquibase Open Source provides developers the ability to treat database changes as code so that they can version and deploy them along with application code.

Liquibase Pro

Liquibase Pro is presented as ideal for agile, iterative development in cloud-native, microservices, and hybrid data environments. Liquibase Pro brings database and security teams into your DevOps process - promoting database standardization, quality, and compliance within CI/CD automation across more than 50 database platforms. Built on the foundation of Liquibase Open Source, Liquibase Pro provides additional capabilities and services including:

  • Pre- and post-deployment validation to enable continuous compliance, governance, and security - bringing the database and security teams into the DevOps process

  • Workflow modularity and portability to abstract and standardize practices across projects, teams, and toolchains

  • Native Amazon S3 integration to support secure and governed centralization of Liquibase artifacts to support all projects.

  • Support for native database executors, such SQL*Plus, sqlcmd, and psql

  • Advanced versioning and rollback capabilities

  • Centralized auditing, visibility, and metrics through Liquibase Hub

  • Expert support and guidance from the creators of Liquibase.

A Solution for Mission-Critical Transactional Applications

Liquibase Enterprise

Liquibase Enterprise is built to provide enterprise reliability and security for mission-critical, relational databases typical in high transaction environments. Presented as ideal for businesses in highly regulated industries, Liquibase Enterprise offers advanced rules and deployment checks for automated speed, safety, and compliance. Organizations that require database reliability can use Liquibase Enterprise to forecast the impact of changes on a target database before any change is made.

Liquibase Enterprise supports enterprise database platforms: Oracle, SQLServer, IBM DB2, EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL.

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Liquibase Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Liquibase starts at $5000.

Redgate Flyway, DBmaestro Database DevOps Platform, and Redgate SQL Provision are common alternatives for Liquibase.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Liquibase are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Liquibase Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Reviews and Ratings

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August 21, 2023

Liquibase is an open-source database migration tool that helps developers manage and version their database schema change

PL
Peter Lu
Senior Backend Engineer
Skiff (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 is a Python SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library. It supports databases compatible with SQLAlchemy, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and others.
July 12, 2023

Liquibase Fixes A Problem Everyone Has But Doesn't Know There's An Answer For

JA
Joe Albano
Senior Configuration Management Advisor
General Dynamics Information Technology (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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.
December 22, 2022

Excellent & Powerful Tool

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 console gives you a complete picture of the database landscape by showing you which environments have received a particular changeset.
December 21, 2022

Amazing tool for Database Schema Upgrades

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 why we chose Liquibase for our database administration needs.
December 16, 2022

Helping us speed things up and reduce human error

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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.
December 08, 2022

Liquibase for easy database administration

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 preferred if you need to support multiple database products or need official support.
December 08, 2022

Must have tool for DevOps

ML
Ming Li
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Ming Microsystems (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 easier to learn and faster to implement than Flyway. Liquibase is also more flexible than Flyway. With Flyway, you have to use SQL statements where as in liquibase you can use SQL, XML, etc. If you use XML in Liquibase, it will auto-generate rollback statements, which is definitely a plus if you want to save some time writing rollback statements.
September 14, 2022

Liquibase? More like Liquib-ACED!

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Mitchell Cooper
Data Engineer
PayIt (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
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 tandem with Liquibase to really get the most out of the application - especially if implementing a CI/CD pipeline.
August 08, 2022

Liquibase you must use it.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Liquibase is an open-source database-independent library for tracking, managing, and applying database schema changes. It was started in 2006 to allow easier tracking of database changes, especially in an agile software development environment Liquibase is an open-source database-independent library for tracking, managing, and applying database schema changes. It was started in 2006 to allow easier tracking of database changes, especially in an agile software development environment.
July 27, 2022

Need a full control on your databases? - Use Liquibase.

MM
MANAS MONDAL
Lead Solution Architect
Unisys (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Amazon SimpleDB is a highly available NoSQL data store that offloads the work of database administration. Developers simply store and query data items via web service requests, and Amazon SimpleDB does the rest. Unbound by the strict requirements of a relational, Amazon SimpleDB is optimized to provide high availability and flexibility, with little or no administrative burden database.
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