Item: Liquibase
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed a technical solution that would simplify and streamlined how we managed changes for different types of databases (both SQL and NoSQL), as data flows from and to various sources. In particular it was important that the solution would allow an easier way to rollback in case of problems and that it would put us on track to develop compliance with NoSQL databases

Pros and Cons

Pros

Support for a great variety of databases
Good documentation
Easy to integrate with existing systems

Cons

Customer support could be quicker
The user experience in using it has not always been consistent due to the CLI

Return on Investment

Safer development due to the possibility of creating a DEV environment, leading to higher confidence with deployments in production
Fewer databases errors as they were caught early (either through pre-deployment data quality checks or testing better)
Increase version control for databases changes

Database Administration

My team was responsible to test Liquibase first and our experience was overall positive, as it was easy to install and would have the features we mostly needed out of the box (eg: extensive database support, rollback). I can personally say that I found myself more comfortable with releasing changes to the databases as I could test properly them before deployment.

Support Rating

There has been an instance where a member of my team was having some performance issues, and we reached out to support for getting some clarity, as maybe we were trying something the system was not designed for: while the time to respond was good, we actually had to wait several hours before we could get in touch with someone who resolved the issue, basically leading to blocked development on our side.

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

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Liquibase as a change management tool as it gave my data engineering team great flexibility in terms of which databases we could make it work with, plus giving us the confidence to try out changes in a dev environment that would mimic the production environment; even in the case of a problem in production, it was clear of to rollback (even though we didn’t need to). I would recommend using Liquibase in a company/team with the required skill set (software engineering, data engineering) already well established, otherwise there is a (small) learning curve required which might be problematic for some users.

Comments

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Ryan Campbell
(Vendor Representative) commented a year ago
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback! I’m glad to hear that you’re happy with the value and feature-set. I’m sorry to hear we missed the mark responding to your performance issue. If you’re open to the discussion I’d love to learn more of your experience - even off the record. I’m ryan at liquibase.com. Thanks! Ryan Campbell VP of Customer Success
Ryan Campbell
(Vendor Representative) commented a year ago
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback! I’m glad to hear that you’re happy with the value and feature-set. I’m sorry to hear we missed the mark responding to your performance issue. If you’re open to the discussion I’d love to learn more of your experience - even off the record. I’m ryan at liquibase.com. Thanks! Ryan Campbell VP of Customer Success

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