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Liquibase vs Sequel: What are the differences?
Liquibase: 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; Sequel: The database toolkit for Ruby. It is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby. It includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.
Liquibase and Sequel can be categorized 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, Sequel provides the following key features:
- Provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for constructing SQL queries and table schemas.
- Supports advanced database features such as prepared statements, bound variables, stored procedures, savepoints, two-phase commit, transaction isolation, primary/replica configurations, and database sharding
- Includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records
Liquibase and Sequel are both open source tools. It seems that Sequel with 4.06K GitHub stars and 890 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Liquibase with 1.87K GitHub stars and 1.12K GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Sequel
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Cons of Liquibase
- Documentation is disorganized5
- No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds5