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dat vs Flyway: What are the differences?
What is dat? Real-time replication and versioning for data sets. Dat is an open source project that provides a streaming interface between every file format and data storage backend.
What is Flyway? Database Migrations Made Easy. Easy to setup, simple to master. Flyway lets you regain control of your database migrations with pleasure and plain sql. Solves only one problem and solves it well. Flyway migrates your database, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.
dat and Flyway can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
dat and Flyway are both open source tools. dat with 7.54K GitHub stars and 460 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flyway with 4.2K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks.
Pros of dat
Pros of Flyway
- Superb tool, easy to configure and use13
- Very easy to config, great support on plain sql scripts9
- Is fantastic and easy to install even with complex DB6
- Simple and intuitive4
- Easy tool to implement incremental migration1
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Cons of dat
Cons of Flyway
- "Undo Migrations" requires pro version, very expensive3