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Amazon RDS vs Liquibase: What are the differences?
Amazon RDS: Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call; 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.
Amazon RDS belongs to "SQL Database as a Service" category of the tech stack, while Liquibase can be primarily classified under "Database Tools".
Some of the features offered by Amazon RDS are:
- Pre-configured Parameters
- Monitoring and Metrics
- Automatic Software Patching
On the other hand, Liquibase provides the following key features:
- Supports code branching and merging
- Supports multiple developers
- Supports multiple database types
"Reliable failovers" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon RDS over the competitors, whereas "Great database tool" was stated as the key factor in picking Liquibase.
Liquibase is an open source tool with 1.79K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Liquibase's open source repository on GitHub.
Airbnb, Netflix, and Coursera are some of the popular companies that use Amazon RDS, whereas Liquibase is used by Viadeo, Orbitz, and Virgin Pulse. Amazon RDS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1435 company stacks & 526 developers stacks; compared to Liquibase, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Pros of Amazon RDS
- Reliable failovers165
- Automated backups156
- Backed by amazon130
- Db snapshots92
- Multi-availability87
- Control iops, fast restore to point of time30
- Security28
- Elastic24
- Push-button scaling20
- Automatic software patching20
- Replication4
- Reliable3
- Isolation2
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
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Cons of Amazon RDS
Cons of Liquibase
- Documentation is disorganized5
- No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds5
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