Liquibase
March 28, 2022

Liquibase

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Other

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase

We have no tool to manage database schemas. We are looking for an efficient tool that could be used on existing DB2 databases and future postgres databases. The tool needs to be able to start with the existing structure and help us to manage future changes to the databases. An optional use case would be to help developers to mount tests databases with Docker.

Pros

  • Changelog of existing database
  • easy updates
  • safety with checksums
  • rollbacks

Cons

  • Documentation is not always easy to find, for example on tags or rollback definitions in SQL format
  • Weird behaviour if sql file has not the first comment line
  • Better control on the changes
  • Easy to use
It's not yet deployed overall the organization, but in the first uses, it made database management much easier.
I did not use the support, so i cannot have a perfect rating.
At this time we only studied Liquibase

Do you think Liquibase delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Liquibase's feature set?

Yes

Did Liquibase live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Liquibase go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Liquibase again?

Yes

Liquibase did a good job of creating a changelog of the existing database. But the only well-created format was SQL. Other formats like XML were not quite generated and could not be used on an empty database for updates. Rollbacks with tags are efficient, but it needs to be anticipated as tags are not easy (it's not documented) to add afterward

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