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Liquibase vs RESTHeart: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is RESTHeart? Open source Web API server for MongoDB database. It connects to MongoDB and opens data to the Web. Clients such as mobile and javascript apps can use the database via a simple RESTful API.

Liquibase and RESTHeart can be primarily classified 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, RESTHeart provides the following key features:

  • Setup in minutes the lightweight and fast microservice with support for MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB
  • Available also as a Docker image
  • Built on standards, like HTTP, JSON, REST, JSON and JSON Schema

Liquibase and RESTHeart are both open source tools. Liquibase with 1.89K GitHub stars and 1.13K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RESTHeart with 563 GitHub stars and 138 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Liquibase
Pros of RESTHeart
  • 18
    Many DBs supported
  • 18
    Great database tool
  • 12
    Easy setup
  • 8
    Database independent migration scripts
  • 5
    Database version controller
  • 5
    Unique open source tool
  • 2
    Precondition checking
  • 1
    Supports NoSQL and Graph DBs
  • 2
    RESTHeart is ready-to-use and saves coding the backend

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Cons of Liquibase
Cons of RESTHeart
  • 5
    Documentation is disorganized
  • 5
    No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds
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    What is Liquibase?

    Liquibase is th 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.

    What is RESTHeart?

    It connects to MongoDB and opens data to the Web. Clients such as mobile and javascript apps can use the database via a simple RESTful API.

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    What are some alternatives to Liquibase and RESTHeart?
    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.
    Hibernate
    Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.
    Sqitch
    It is a standalone change management system with no opinions about your database engine, application framework, or development environment. Native scripting. Changes are implemented as scripts native to your selected database engine.
    Slick
    It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
    Spring Data
    It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.
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