Item: Liquibase
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Liquibase to enable CI/CD for Database Deployments. With the help of Liquibase we have improved our database deployment process. Some specific improvements are :
1. Faster deployments
2. Versioning of Database Code
3. Faster feedback to development process with help of policy checks
4. Quick and reliable rollback process
5. Better Audit of Database changes

Pros and Cons

Pros

Faster Deployments
Helps implement standards for database code development using policy checks
Better audit of the changes made to schema with help of tracking tables

Cons

Customizable Database changelog table

Return on Investment

Faster deployments
Fewer errors by preventing any unexpected code from being deployed

Database Administration

Liquibase has helped the administrators to define standards around database scripts, helps avoid lot of efforts in manual code reviews. Set controls around some sensitive commands execution on prod databases. Database deployments have become faster and easily auditable.

Support Rating

Liquibase's customer support team has been very instrumental in helping us drive the whole Database CI/CD initiative. We have always received very quick resolution to our queries or any roadblock we hit. Right from setting up Liquibase in our environment to this date the Liquibase team has always helped us deliver quality and innovative solutions.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Liquibase is very well suited for database schema management. It works great for any DDL/DML deployments, changes made to database are easy to manage, track or troubleshoot. It comes with a wide variety of Rollback options. Liquibase Policy checks are a great way to enforce standards around Database code development across organization and prevent any unexpected from being deployed.

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Excellent tool to bring DevOps to Databases

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