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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.

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Pros of Liquibase
Pros of Sequel
  • 18
    Great database tool
  • 18
    Many DBs supported
  • 12
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Database independent migration scripts
  • 5
    Unique open source tool
  • 5
    Database version controller
  • 2
    Precondition checking
  • 2
    Supports NoSQL and Graph DBs
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    Cons of Liquibase
    Cons of Sequel
    • 5
      Documentation is disorganized
    • 5
      No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds
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      What is Liquibase?

      Liquibase is th 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.

      What is Sequel?

      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.

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      What are some alternatives to Liquibase and Sequel?
      Flyway
      It lets you regain control of your database migrations with pleasure and plain sql. Solves only one problem and solves it well. It migrates your database, so you don't have to worry about it anymore.
      Hibernate
      Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.
      Sqitch
      It is a standalone change management system with no opinions about your database engine, application framework, or development environment. Native scripting. Changes are implemented as scripts native to your selected database engine.
      MySQL
      The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
      PostgreSQL
      PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
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