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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.

Liquibase Technical Details

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

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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
An ease of error-prone and quick database deployments both on-prem and on cloud integrated with CI/CD DevOps Automation.
  • Difference of Schemas between two databases
  • Baseline on a newer target deployment
  • Well fit in with dockers and Azure Devops for CI/CD Automation Deployment
  • Snapshots being a great feature on offline diff but need to come up with strong reliability outcome
  • Sequences And Unique Constraints outcome from diff changelog is redundant
Our POC based on other competing tools definitely Liquibase gets a mileage and it's helping our development team for quick and error-free schema deployment on Cloud/Hybrid database targets.
  • More reliability of diff changelog
  • Close security integration with DBMSs for database deployment
Once a pipeline/platform is laid out as part of heavy lifting by DBA/DevOps and ownership moved to Development team, DBA deployment efforts/hours have really been subsided.
It's quick and good but could be better by understanding the customer's issue to reproduce the issue and come up with solutions.
We like stateless deployment and it helps us.
30
Database Deployment using CI/CD
20
DevOps , DBA And Application Development team.
  • database deployment
  • application development speed up
  • adhoc data patch
  • dockerized based database deployment
  • schema compare and review
  • azure devops ci/cd integrated
  • cloud database deployment
  • move away from Microsoft Database Project
the database deployments helped application team with increased productivity, faster delivery and low risk.
Yes
dbforge is state based.
dbmaestro requires additional infrastructure needs as opposed to dockerized using liquibase.
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
the database deployments with increased productivity, faster delivery and low risk. heteregneous clod database targets deployment.
we're already on-board with Liquibase with several application development teams
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
application team ensures artifacts. dba laid down the ci/cd pipeline using azure devops
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
App team has ensure single source of truth as TFS for database schema to help us use the pipeline for database deployment.
  • not an issue but insist on maintaining tfs code inventory as single source of truth for artifacts
the database deployments helped us with increased productivity, faster delivery and low risk.
Application team needs full scale database compare for which we procure enterprise license.
Yes
unique constraints are recreated with 4.17, have to retry with newer release...
sequences owned by table are reported but we do have alternatives adhoc implementations to overcome
Liquibase support team is proactive and prompt response for their customers and we reached out 3 times and they have resolved and addressed our concerns.
the database deployments helped teams with a increased productivity, faster delivery and low risk.
  • generatechangelog for rever enginering
  • diffchangelog for differential between two databases
  • usage of context for variations in the scripts for changeset apply
  • snapshots are very useful but snapshot compare needs attention
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for DB Automation solution to promote DB changes on the fly. This product helps in CI-CD workflow for DB changes.
  • Script build and deployment
  • Compare script reports
  • Error handling but can be improved
  • DB versions supported
  • the build has a very tedious process - taking backup and restoring for every script to be processed
  • Error handling, many errors are left unmanaged due to which finding the root cause of the issue is difficult
  • HTML reports can be optimized for low space
  • Permissions management i.e. in case of the build is failing, permissions can be checked beforehand. rather than failing in process execution.
  • Project creation from TSV files makes it complicated
Liquibase is well suited for CI CD workflow, DB changes, DB differences, and reports.
  • more frequent deployments are positive
  • CI CD workflow makes it easy to use
  • performance is an issue in the build process
The requirement of REF DB and the time taken in the build process makes it very difficult to use. But, overall it helps automation.
I give it this rating because it is very responsive with good knowledge of platform issues.
Liquibase is easy to use, but it lacks performance and error handling.
CloudBees Jenkins Platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Digital.ai Release (formerly XebiaLabs XL Release)
100
Information Technology
3
Database, CI CD Automation, Devops engineer
  • DB CI CD workflow
  • less involvement of DBA in change promotion
  • saves time
  • In House CI CD workflow
  • scripts source control
  • Permissions management
  • DB Restore
Many teams are using it so renewal is a requirement
Yes
Ease of use was main reason for using Liquibase
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Ease of usage
I would not 100% consider the product because of its maturity level. Needs huge improvements to make it enterprise tool.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Build, deployment, Database sync up
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
requires high level of integration code to suit our need
  • build process is a disaster
  • reports are heavy
  • error handling is not good
Build process takes a toll.
not sure. But support we are getting is very good and responsive. Good knowledge.
Yes
Bug in tools takes time in resolution and always require upgrade to be done on servers which is not very scalable model.
Every time. Support have been the best thing that is there. Even better than product.
Build process is too time consuming and getting extra DB instance takes a toll
  • build
  • change promotion
  • deployment
  • db comparison
  • Build process - very very cumbersome
  • performance
  • heavy reports
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