Item: Liquibase
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Liquibase enables database schemas migration and rollbacks, it is used with other products (GCP SQL & SQL Auth Proxy) in a Kubernetes environment

Pros and Cons

Schema migration
Schema rollback

Error logging
Changing already played scripts

Return on Investment

More frequent deployment (given that devs are manage schema changes themselves)
Easier schema management

Liquibase usage enabled devs to update, change and remove parts of their schemas independently from the ops teams.
However, it did not impact database safety, only made it easy to work with databases.

Support Rating

We didn't encounter issues that required liquibase's support

Alternatives Considered

I didn't encounter similair or competitor product

Key Insights

Do you think Liquibase delivers good value for the price?

Yes

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?

Yes

Would you buy Liquibase again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SonarQube, Dynatrace, Confluent Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Liquibase is well suited for migrating and rollbacking database schemas.
It is XML based which makes it easy to read and mantain.
It also gives a great view of the database schema at a given point.
Issues related to this service are mainly due to the time it takes to update schema and error logging which is not always great.

Using Liquibase docker image for database schema migration

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase