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Airpal vs Flyway: What are the differences?
Airpal: Web UI for PrestoDB, by Airbnb. A web-based query execution tool built on top of Facebook's PrestoDB; 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.
Airpal and Flyway can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Some of the features offered by Airpal are:
- Optional Access Control
- Syntax highlighting
- Results exported to a CSV for download or a Hive table
On the other hand, Flyway provides the following key 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
Airpal and Flyway are both open source tools. It seems that Flyway with 4.2K GitHub stars and 915 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Airpal with 2.53K GitHub stars and 437 GitHub forks.
Pros of Airpal
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 Airpal
Cons of Flyway
- "Undo Migrations" requires pro version, very expensive3