Which Liquibase is right for you?

Bring CI/CD to the database no matter where you are on your DevOps journey.

Open Source
Version, track, and deploy database changes.
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Liquibase Pro
Agility, observability, and governance for SQL and NoSQL databases with white-glove professional services.
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Change Management
Native SQL Dialect
Support for PL/SQL, SQLPL, T-SQL, and more
Change format
How scripts are formatted
SQL, XML, YAML, JSON
SQL, XML, YAML, JSON
Change creation & management
Where changes are created and how they are managed
CLI or 3rd party automation tools
CLI or 3rd party automation tools
Smart database updates
Automatically determine and deploy all changes that have not yet been deployed
Targeted database updates
Execute a specific change on the database
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Preconditions
Control the execution of an update based on the state of the database
Set labels and contexts
Determine which changes and sets of changes are eligible to deploy
Change preview / dry run
Review all raw SQL changes before you apply them
Rollback
Undo the most recently applied change or all changes back to a set point
Advanced rollback
Cherry pick changes to undo and automatically rollback when an error is detected
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Native executors
Run advanced changes with native executors SQL*Plus, PSQL, SQLCMD, and MongoSH
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Stored logic
Work with stored procedural code on select platforms, including Oracle SQL*Plus
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Change generation
Generate sets of changes based on the database
Advanced change generation
Generate sets of changes based on the database including stored logic
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Snapshot
Generate a schema snapshot
Advanced snapshot
Generate a schema snapshot including stored logic with advanced features
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Remote files
Run Liquibase files hosted remotely on Amazon S3
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Observability, compliance & governance
Diff
Generate a comparison (or diff) between two databases to detect unexpected bugs
Advanced diff & drift detection
Automate notifications to alert your team when unexpected (potentially malicious) differences between databases are detected
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Quality Checks
Check the quality and security of your database code on-demand or in automation against a set of rules before deployment
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Flows
Orchestrate database change workflows and best practices for instant and consistent deployments
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Structured Logging
Structured and customizable logging that enhances observability and security with your BI tools and dashboards
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Operations reports
Portable reports for operational insights and error detection
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Secrets management
Built-in integration with AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault
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Installation, deployment & configuration
Installation
Download and install Liquibase via CLI, API, Spring, Docker, Maven, Gradle, Ant, Debian/Ubuntu, and Red Hat/ CentOS
Deployment
Deploy changes manually or via automated processes
Standard JDBC
Pass credentials and connection attributes via CLI or properties files
Command line & properties file
Configure & specify details like database connection & classpath information using a single file, CLI, or Java system properties
Support
Community support
Get help with most of your Liquibase questions and issues in our community forum
Standard support
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Premium support
Access to 24×7 support — view SLA details
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Available
Onboarding
Training to get started
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Available
Technical Account Manager
Personalized service and account reviews coordinated by a Technical Account Manager
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Frequently asked questions

How do I count targets?

Targets (previously referred to as “database connections”) are the number of data sources in each environment managed with Liquibase. Liquibase is licensed per target to support a wide range of database platforms and configurations.

Our architecture uses database targets at a high rate. Do you offer volume discounts or alternative pricing models for SaaS companies?

Liquibase offers volume discounts and alternative pricing models to fit your business. Contact us for details on alternative pricing models for SaaS companies or volume pricing for architectures and enterprises that leverage targets at a high rate.

How is Liquibase Licensed

Liquibase Open Source is released under the Apache 2.0 license. The main distribution also contains commercially licensed Liquibase Pro code that is only active when a license key is entered.

Liquibase Enterprise is commercially licensed. Contact Sales for more details.

Where can I get the source code?

You can get the Liquibase open source project source code from GitHub.

How is Liquibase different from compare tools that generate change lists?

Liquibase works better because it understands your changes. For example, a database comparison program would simply see the “person” table on integration has a “firstname” and a “lastname” column, but on live, the “person” table has a “name” column. It would report that you need to drop the “name” column and add a “firstname” and a “lastname” column. While this would leave you with the correct schema, you would lose everyone’s name in the process. With Liquibase, you would have a changeset that says “rename ‘name’ to ‘lastname’ and add a ‘firstname’ column” or, even better, “split the name column on a space and place the values in new ‘firstname’ and ‘lastname’ columns, then drop the ‘name’ column.” Knowing why they are different allows you to make changes to a production database without the fear of losing valuable data.

Does Liquibase work with branches?

Yes, Liquibase works with git based workflows to meet your needs, whether that is a trunk based branching, release based or environment based branching. Learn more about Liquibase and GitOps here.

Is 24×7 support available?

Yes. Premium support is available. Contact us and we’ll make sure you get the support you need.

Can I get help with implementation?

Yes. Liquibase offers professional services to help design, plan, and implement based on your unique environment and requirements. Contact us to learn more.

I love the flexibility with the schema changes. I don't have to restrict my team to "only XML" way. It is possible to come up with schema changes in YAML and JSON, which is the order of game nowadays.

Hari K

PostgreSQL Consultant

Liquibase has helped us with implementing reliable version control and a CI/CD pipeline for our data warehousing needs. The space for database version control leaves a lot to be desired, but thankfully Liquibase has that covered! We have paired Liquibase with GitHub and GitHub actions to reliably ensure all of our environments are in sync and easily track our deployments.

Mitchell Cooper

Data Engineer

As database administrator and consultant, Liquibase is a great tool. It frees up DBA time to manually sync database schema between DEV, TEST and PROD environments. By doing schema comparison programally, it gives me the peace of mind that all database objects are identical between different environments. We could also delegate the task to operation team.

Feng Cai

Database Consultant - ProServe (Database Migration)

"An ease of error-prone and quick database deployments both on-prem and on cloud integrated with CI/CD DevOps Automation."

BISWA MAHAPATRA

Lead DBA

Liquibase brought our database changes and data correction processes up to speed with our code deploys which were already automated. It allows us to rely on automated validation as well as fit into our current software development lifecycle processes and CM software using a central versioned artifact capable of being deployed through our current CD pipeline.

Joe Albano

Senior Configuration Management Advisor

We use the Liquibase tool for DB deployment automations using the CICD process. It helped us a lot by reducing human error with the standard audit reporting structure integrated with it.

Nagendra Sekharamantri

DevOps Engineer

"Use Cases and Deployment Scope We use Liquibase to handle version control and source code control of SQL scripts and database changes and for the deployment and (if needed) rollback of the same. It's helped us go from arbitrary SQL changes that we tried to manually track, to having a reliable, repeatable, accurate account of what's in our database structure."

David Williams

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

Liquibase provides Seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring code and database remain in lockstep. Modeling database structure in DBMS agnostic XML instead of SQL helps ease the transition from one DBMS to another. A friendly web console provides a view into which environments have received a specific changeset, enabling a complete view of the database landscape. Finally, their support is on-point! Very friendly support from knowledgable people who are obviously passionate about this product.

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"Liquibase is a database-independent product required to publish and apply schema changes to any database. It makes the process of applying database changes in production incredibly seamless. As a company building enterprise products, we have a number of database schema changes going on in every release, and Liquibase comes to the rescue for applying these changes. Flyway callout: Liquibase is much more powerful compared to Flyway since it is much more flexible in nature. You can apply changes programmatically, works with any kind of database and provides features version controlling database schemas. All these features were missing in Flyway and that's why we chose Liquibase for our database administration needs."

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Engineer

Managing database at a large scale is hard especially for our legacy project for which we needed to add new feature or redesign the database. Liquibase has been a game changer both from the developper experience point of view and the sys op/ admin point of view. Creating , Modifying , deleting databases in our postgres and mysql database has been a breeze and our team can only say great things about how it affected our work.

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IT Engineer

Liquibase addresses challenges related to database schema management, version control, collaboration, and deployment automation. Its scope of use cases spans software development, CI/CD, microservices, data migration, compliance. As applications evolve, the database schema might require refactoring. Liquibase supports the controlled refactoring of database structures while preserving data integrity.

Henry Brit

Lead Engineer

"We use Liquibase to maintain our changelogs while transforming our data in snowflake and deploying it to test and prod. Liquibase changelogs help us keep up to date with our changes and do the rollback in case of any error. Liquibase also provides many validation features that will come in handy if you want to establish checks during your code deployment. It's a great product with excellent customer service."

Pratik Lamsal

DevOps Engineer

Change log management organize and database changes in a systematic manner. Changes are organized into a series of change sets, each representing a specific change or a set of related changes.

Peter Lu

Senior Backend Engineer

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