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What is Flyway?

It lets you regain control of your database migrations with pleasure and plain sql. Solves only one problem and solves it well. It migrates your database, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.
Flyway is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Flyway is an open source tool with 7.7K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Flyway's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Flyway?

Companies
53 companies reportedly use Flyway in their tech stacks, including Platform, doubleSlash, and RatePAY GmbH.

Developers
212 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Flyway.

Flyway Integrations

Docker, Java, Gradle, Apache Maven, and Windows are some of the popular tools that integrate with Flyway. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Flyway.
Pros of Flyway
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Superb tool, easy to configure and use
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Very easy to config, great support on plain sql scripts
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Is fantastic and easy to install even with complex DB
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Simple and intuitive
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Easy tool to implement incremental migration
Decisions about Flyway

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Flyway in their tech stack.

Needs advice
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FlywayFlywayMSSQLMSSQL
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PostgreSQLPostgreSQL

MSSQL to PostgreSQL database migration can be done through Flyway? Please advise the steps if possible.

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Needs advice
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FlywayFlyway
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LiquibaseLiquibase

All the DB deployments in our current organization are manual. We want to automate them. We are leaning toward Liquibase since it has versioning and rollbacks. Is Flyway better or Liquibase?

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Needs advice
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FlywayFlywayLiquibaseLiquibase
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MycliMycli

Currently I am using Flyway as version based database migration tool, however I am thinking for an alternative tool which can produce better reporting and whose performance is better. Currently flyway migration is taking too much time, how I can improve the performance..

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Flyway's Features

  • Supported databases: Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Azure, DB2, DB2 z/OS, MySQL, MariaDB, Google Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Vertica, H2, Hsql, Derby, SQLite
  • Supported build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant and SBT
  • Works on: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Java and Android

Flyway Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Flyway?
Liquibase
Liquibase is th leading open-source tool for database schema change management. Liquibase helps teams track, version, and deploy database schema and logic changes so they can automate their database code process with their app code process.
Hibernate
Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.
Switch
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Slick
It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
Spring Data
It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.
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Flyway's Followers
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