What is Pgroll?
It is an open-source command-line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL by serving multiple schema versions simultaneously. It takes care of the complex migration operations to ensure that client applications continue working while the database schema is being updated.
Pgroll is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Pgroll is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 106 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pgroll's open source repository on GitHub
Pgroll Integrations
Pgroll's Features
- Zero-downtime migrations (no database locking, no breaking changes)
- Keep old and new schema versions working simultaneously
- Automatic columns backfilling when needed
- Instant rollback in case of issues during migration
Pgroll Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pgroll?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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