GitHub vs Liquibase comparison

GitHub and Liquibase are both solutions in the Version Control category. GitHub is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0, while Liquibase is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. GitHub holds a 5.5% mindshare in VC, compared to Liquibase’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GitHub users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Liquibase users who would recommend it.

GitHub

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100% willing to recommend

Liquibase

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416 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 2024

GitHub and Liquibase serve different purposes but are often compared in terms of features, room for improvement, ease of deployment and customer service, and pricing and ROI. GitHub excels in widespread adoption and CI/CD integration, while Liquibase is superior for specialized database management.

Features: GitHub offers extensive repository management, collaboration tools, and an integrated development environment. Liquibase provides database change management, version control, and rollback features.

Room for Improvement: GitHub could enhance project management features, better collaboration tools for non-developers, and improve user collaboration. Liquibase needs better documentation, a more user-friendly setup process, and improved onboarding resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GitHub is noted for a straightforward deployment process and detailed support documentation. Liquibase’s deployment is more complex but offers helpful customer service after the initial learning curve.

Pricing and ROI: GitHub's pricing is reasonable with a favorable ROI for those using its full suite of tools. Liquibase, more expensive, delivers significant ROI for enterprises needing robust database management solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

GitHub

Ranking in Version Control

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (7th)

Liquibase

Ranking in Version Control

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Version Control category, the mindshare of GitHub is 5.5%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liquibase is 2.0%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Version Control

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AjayKrishna

Senior Software Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 11, 2024

Reduces project delivery times and costs

I think one area where GitHub could improve is its search and navigation functionality within repositories. For example, we use IDEs like IntelliJ or Visual Studio Code when developing code. These IDEs allow us to easily navigate from one piece of code to another file where a method is being called. It would be really helpful if the solution could add this navigation feature. It would allow us to move from one class file to another more easily, helping us search quicker and follow the code flow completely within GitHub. This would be more convenient than having to import the code into our local IDE to look at the code flow and navigate through it. Adding this kind of IDE-like navigation within the tool would make the user experience more seamless and efficient.

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Sudheer Kumar Jamjam

Technical Lead CloudDevOps Engineer at Deloitte

May 21, 2024

Offers integration with multiple databases, stable product and reduced our manual intervention

I would recommend using it. To learn Liquibase, one should have some database knowledge. If the person is from a DBA background, they would be able to learn quickly. But if they are from an application or infrastructure role, it's medium complex. Before getting started, you should thoroughly go through the documentation and follow the latest changes deployed by the Liquibase product team. Basically, when using the product, you should be able to understand it and stay updated on the latest releases. Overall, I would rate the product a nine out of ten. Organizations should have this kind of tool to reduce manual intervention. The one point they could improve on is documentation, which they haven't clarified, and they need to work on that a lot.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is help offered by the community for open-source projects."

"The version control functionality for this solution has been most valuable, especially when managing projects with multiple versions."

"The most valuable features of GitHub include its ability to integrate with Jira and multiple CI/CD platforms like Techton, allowing for seamless project management."

"The most important feature of GitHub is the maintainability of the versions of the code."

"The ease of use is valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the source code management. It's very helpful and it's a great product."

"Complication free with good ability for third-party integrations."

"We've found the technical support to be very helpful."

More GitHub pros

"It will be useful for teams to automate and reduce manual work."

"They have some nice features around the automation of rule checking. They have a rules engine that checks the SQL code so that you can actually do your edit checks on the validity of the SQL code. If you don't want certain tables to be able to have certain things done to them, you can have it checked for that. It's a very flexible way to kind of do an automated peer review of the SQL code to catch things before you actually try to deploy it."

"The solution is easy to use, and it has very clear documentation."

Cons

"This solution could be improved if migration was fully automated to make it easy, for example, to migrate repositories into GitHub."

"Github needs more storage."

"GitHub could improve in resolving conflicts when multiple developers modify the same line of code."

"GitHub could automate the setup process more, such as creating YAML files for GitHub Actions."

"The development team pushes the code into a repository, and the CI/CD pipeline will perform the build. We need open-source libraries to perform the builds. It would be helpful to have the ability to link to open-source libraries like npm libraries. I don't know if GitHub Actions provides this. I would like to see that in GitHub Actions if they don't."

"I would like to see more security where a plugin was available for us to update in relation to security."

"We would like this solution to have a more user-friendly interface."

"The integration with Visual Studio Code could be more streamlined."

More GitHub cons

"The pricing is quite high."

"One thing we faced issues with is that Liquibase does not show the exact error, which added to the complexity."

"We were not able to delete some of the tables because of a security issue."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay a subscription-based yearly licensing fee for the solution."

"It is open-source. There is no license for GitHub."

"I am using the free version of the solution. However, there are some costs my organization pays."

"If there are only 10 people using a particular repository, then GitHub is free. But if we increase the number of users, we need to pay the normal charge for GitHub."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"GitHub is an open-source application. It's free to use."

"The tool offers a free program. As you go, you can upgrade from the community version to the professional one. I believe it costs about ten dollars per person, per month."

"I haven't had to pay anything for GitHub, I use the free version."

More GitHub pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is fair."

"Liquibase is an open-source solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GitHub?

The control is the most valuable feature as developers can work on a single code.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitHub?

I do not know about the pricing because I do not pay anything. It's free for me.

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What needs improvement with GitHub?

The solution is really good. I cannot think of improvement needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Liquibase?

Liquibase is an open-source solution. If you are using Liquibase, you need to update its license. I think Liquibase is affordable for our organization.

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What needs improvement with Liquibase?

We were not able to delete some of the tables because of a security issue.

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What is your primary use case for Liquibase?

I have worked on the Liquibase commands, Liquibase updates, Liquibase storeback, and some basic commands from Liquibase. We were using the Docker image installed from the AWS CI/CD, downloading thi...

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Overview

GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service. It offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. Unlike Git, which is strictly a command-line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface and desktop as well as mobile integration. It also provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.

Liquibase is a migration-based open source database version control solution that relies on a changelog to track what changesets have been deployed to a database, and what additional changesets needs to be applied to a database in order to migrate a database schema to a specific version. Liquibase supports an XML model for defining changesets so that database schema changes can easily be translated to another DBMS platforms. As an open source solution, Liquibase is ideal for smaller teams and projects or for teams that have ample time to invest in extending and adapting the open source capability to meet their needs.

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