Liquibase vs QueryDSL: What are the differences?

Developers describe Liquibase as "Source control for your database". Developers store database changes in text-based files on their local development machines and apply them to their local databases. Changelog files can be be arbitrarily nested for better management. On the other hand, QueryDSL is detailed as "Unified queries for Java". It is an extensive Java framework, which allows for the generation of type-safe queries in a syntax similar to SQL. It currently has a wide range of support for various backends through the use of separate modules including JPA, JDO, SQL, Java collections, RDF, Lucene, Hibernate Search, and MongoDB.

Liquibase and QueryDSL can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.

Some of the features offered by Liquibase are:

• Supports code branching and merging
• Supports multiple developers
• Supports multiple database types

On the other hand, QueryDSL provides the following key features:

• Working with raw SQL
• Non-persistent collections
• NoSQL databases

Liquibase and QueryDSL are both open source tools. It seems that QueryDSL with 2.4K GitHub stars and 557 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Liquibase with 1.83K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks.