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What is Liquibase?

Liquibase is a database change management tool that extends DevOps best practices to the database, helping teams release software faster and safer by bringing the database change process into existing CI/CD automation. According to the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps…

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What is Liquibase?

Liquibase is a database change management tool that extends DevOps best practices to the database, helping teams release software faster and safer by bringing the database change process into existing CI/CD automation. According to the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, elite performers are…

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What is Liquibase?

Liquibase is a database change management tool that extends DevOps best practices to the database, helping teams release software faster and safer by bringing the database change process into existing CI/CD automation. According to the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, elite performers are 3.4 times more likely to incorporate database change management into their process than low performers.

Liquibase value proposition:

  • Liquibase speeds up the development process by closing the velocity gap. By bringing CI/CD automation to the database, teams can code at full speed and break through the database bottleneck of manual reviews.

  • Boasting a 94% reduction in errors, Liquibase enables teams to deliver continuously with full confidence. Liquibase equips teams with the tools needed to monitor changes, audit databases, detect possible malware, and improve observability.

  • Liquibase empowers teams to collaborate. By treating database code like application code, Liquibase is designed to make it easier for app developers to work with the database team by automating tedious, manual, and error-prone processes.

  • Liquibase allows teams to scale deployments while making it easy to enforce governance and stay compliant. The vendor states that teams that use Liquibase deploy 233% more often.



Solutions Ideal for Cloud Native and Hybrid Data Applications


Liquibase Open Source

The Liquibase Open Source project started in 2006, and has over 100M downloads. Liquibase Open Source provides developers the ability to treat database changes as code so that they can version and deploy them along with application code.


Liquibase Pro

Liquibase Pro is presented as ideal for agile, iterative development in cloud-native, microservices, and hybrid data environments. Liquibase Pro brings database and security teams into your DevOps process — promoting database standardization, quality, and compliance within CI/CD automation across more than 60 database platforms. Built on the foundation of Liquibase Open Source, Liquibase Pro provides additional capabilities and services including:

  • Pre- and post-deployment validation to enable continuous compliance, governance, and security - bringing the database and security teams into the DevOps process

  • Workflow modularity and portability to abstract and standardize practices across projects, teams, and toolchains

  • Native Amazon S3 integration to support secure and governed centralization of Liquibase artifacts to support all projects.

  • Support for native database executors, such SQL*Plus, sqlcmd, and psql

  • Advanced versioning and rollback capabilities

  • Centralized auditing, visibility, and metrics through Liquibase Hub

  • Expert support and guidance from the creators of Liquibase.


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Liquibase Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of Liquibase are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Liquibase Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Liquibase's change log files serve as an audit trail of database modifications, facilitating compliance, tracking historical changes, and helping with troubleshooting.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The culture of blame disappear from the moment that we are able to rollback DB configuration and schema. be able to fail safe and return to previous states of the DB schema and data is a functionality that every organization needs for his development team.
We had tried different DB schema version control and I think that Liquibase just work as required.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Liquibase structured our database changes and updates through a rigid process where it becomes easier to go through Liquibase's process than to manually update or execute ad-hoc code. However, with new software comes new processes, and changing a culture of not best practices to better and best practices is a challenge. But over time, the culture shifts, and users become reliant on Liquibase, making it an embedded software in our organization. This brings about hardening changes to the process to fortify what Liquibase ushers in in terms of scalability and consistent automation and execution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This helped us to enable self-service capabilities for our development teams; now, they have better version control and management throughout the entire deployment cycle on prod and non-prod databases. This also supports multiple authentication methods like username/password-based authentication as well as certificate-based authentication, which is more secure and reliable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adding Liquibase to our toolbox is a benefit providing Methodology, versioning, log, rollback, and including DB changes in Ci/Cd pipelines. It takes a medium effort to implement and good knowledge. Some aspects of the culture of the TI organization must be revised. We need special care when several Teams make changes on the same DB.
December 22, 2022

Excellent & Powerful Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It evaluate changes from testing to cut down on mistakes made during production changes. It provides an overall positive database administration group experience. conforms well to best practices in DevOps. Additionally, we were able to make use of this opportunity to implement a greater number of incremental changes as opposed to periodic large ones.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The deployments have become much faster since we don't have to write schema migration/upgrade scripts anymore. Liquibase is also extremely reliable and doesn't produce errors in the upgraded schemas. Moreover, management of schemas using version control systems have made our systems much reliable, since in case some issue occurs, we can very easily rollback the changes.
December 15, 2022

Liquibase Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Because Liquibase helps greatly in automation of DB update and modification, it reduces the the workload or pressure on Database administrators, they just need to make the configuration and scripts and Liquibase can manage the rest. It also help increase the effeciency by decreasing the human error.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have less stress deploying changes knowing that we can revert easily.
Using the same tool for different database types also makes the proces alot easier.
This also gave us the opportunity to do more small changes instead of going for periodical large changes.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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