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Liquibase vs DB: What are the differences?
Liquibase: Source control for your database. Liquibase is a 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; DB: Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line. With DB you can very easily save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line. It supports connecting to different database servers (for example a local development server and a staging or production server) and allows you to load a database dump from one environment into another environment.
Liquibase and DB belong to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack.
Liquibase and DB are both open source tools. Liquibase with 1.93K GitHub stars and 1.15K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than DB with 893 GitHub stars and 17 GitHub forks.
Pros of DB
Pros of Liquibase
- Great database tool18
- Many DBs supported18
- Easy setup12
- Database independent migration scripts8
- Unique open source tool5
- Database version controller5
- Precondition checking2
- Supports NoSQL and Graph DBs2
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Cons of DB
Cons of Liquibase
- Documentation is disorganized5
- No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds5