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Flyway vs Hibernate: What are the differences?

Flyway: Database Migrations Made Easy. Easy to setup, simple to master. Flyway lets you regain control of your database migrations with pleasure and plain sql. Solves only one problem and solves it well. Flyway migrates your database, so you don't have to worry about it anymore; Hibernate: Idiomatic persistence for Java and relational databases. Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.

Flyway belongs to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack, while Hibernate can be primarily classified under "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)".

"Superb tool, easy to configure and use" is the top reason why over 6 developers like Flyway, while over 9 developers mention "Easy ORM" as the leading cause for choosing Hibernate.

Flyway is an open source tool with 4.2K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flyway's open source repository on GitHub.

Bodybuilding.com, StyleShare Inc., and Zola are some of the popular companies that use Hibernate, whereas Flyway is used by JustWatch, Red Panda Platform, and Picnic Technologies. Hibernate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 87 company stacks & 74 developers stacks; compared to Flyway, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.

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Pros of Flyway

Pros of Hibernate

13
Superb tool, easy to configure and use
9
Very easy to config, great support on plain sql scripts
6
Is fantastic and easy to install even with complex DB
4
Simple and intuitive
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Easy tool to implement incremental migration

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Easy ORM
7
Easy transaction definition
2
Is integrated with spring jpa

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Cons of Flyway

Cons of Hibernate

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"Undo Migrations" requires pro version, very expensive

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Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used

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What is 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.

What is Hibernate?

Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.

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Slick

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