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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.
Pros of Liquibase
- Many DBs supported18
- Great database tool18
- Easy setup12
- Database independent migration scripts8
- Database version controller5
- Unique open source tool5
- Precondition checking2
- Supports NoSQL and Graph DBs1
Pros of RESTHeart
- RESTHeart is ready-to-use and saves coding the backend2
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Cons of Liquibase
- Documentation is disorganized5
- No vendor specifics in XML format - needs workarounds5