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Flyway vs MyBatis: What are the differences?
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; MyBatis: SQL Mapper Framework for Java. It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.
Flyway belongs to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack, while MyBatis can be primarily classified under "Java Tools".
Flyway and MyBatis are both open source tools. MyBatis with 11.2K GitHub stars and 7.07K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flyway with 4.2K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks.
Pros of Flyway
- Superb tool, easy to configure and use12
- Very easy to config, great support on plain sql scripts9
- Is fantastic and easy to install even with complex DB5
- Simple and intuitive4
Pros of MyBatis
- Easy to use6
- Extensions3
- Integrated with Spring3
- Flexible3
- Data-first support2
- Ok0
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Cons of Flyway
- "Undo Migrations" requires pro version, very expensive3