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Liquibase vs Master Data Services: What are the differences?
Developers describe Liquibase as "Source control for your database". Liquibase is a 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. On the other hand, Master Data Services is detailed as "Manage a master set of your organization's data". It enables you to manage a master set of your organization's data. You can organize the data into models, create rules for updating the data, and control who updates the data. With Excel, you can share the master data set with other people in your organization.
Liquibase and Master Data Services 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, Master Data Services provides the following key features:
- Excel add-in
- Models
- Entities
Liquibase is an open source tool with 2.17K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Liquibase's open source repository on GitHub.
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
Pros of Master Data Services
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Cons of Liquibase
- Documentation is disorganized5
- No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds5