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Liquibase Pro Trial for Squad
July 10, 2023

Liquibase Pro Trial for Squad

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Liquibase Pro

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase

We needed a method for version control across development environments. Liquibase helped solve this issue and made creating new database instances on local machines extremely easy using docker. Liquibase also gave an easy method to destroy and rebuild development environments such as QA and DEV to match what we use in production.
  • Giving Version Control
  • Creating New Instances of Database Environments
  • Rollback Changes
  • Checking for Common SQL Errors
  • Pro Sales Team didn't seem to interested in selling the pro service to us.
  • The subscription license for Pro seemed extremely short for the time to see features in action.
  • Liquibase is great at setting up new environments, but you pay for each database for each environment. In the case of trying to use Liquibase locally as a team, you would have to pay for each dev machine. Needs a better pricing model that plays into using Liquibase at its fullest potential without getting penalized.
  • Needs price breaks after so many instances. 1-10 cost, 10-50 cost, 50-200 cost, ect.
  • Creates faster deployments of database changes
  • Creates version control for databases
  • Allows users to create local environments on their machines for quicker development
  • The cost per database on each environment pushes developers to use fewer environments, which feels counter-productive
  • If issues are found in QA testing, the Rollbacks made changes really easy to revert back
My squad was the first to test using Liquibase, so it was not incorporated throughout the company. Yet, it made it easier to work asynchronously as a team. Database changes were set up with Jira tickets and it made it very easy to see all that was changed. If used across organizations, then SREs would quickly be able to automate rebuilding development environments to match PROD once a week. Also, it was nice to see the differences across the environments.
We didn't use customer support at all. We only had access to the trial license of the Pro version. I would assume they would be great. Although I didn't really enjoy the sales team, I felt like we tried to get our company to use the Pro version, but they didn't try and sell the product to us.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Liquibase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Liquibase again?

No

Liquibase works well for smaller size companies currently with fewer development environments. Since you have to pay per database on each environment and there are no breaks in the cost as the databases increase. The product works great for version control, rollbacks, error checking, and recreating instances of environments. Liquibase was easy to learn, and they had a lot of documentation explaining how to use their product.