reshape VS departure

Compare reshape vs departure and see what are their differences.

reshape

An easy-to-use, zero-downtime schema migration tool for Postgres (by fabianlindfors)

departure

Percona's pt-online-schema-change runner for ActiveRecord migrations. (by departurerb)
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reshape departure
16 1
1,621 134
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7.4 8.0
about 1 month ago 2 months ago
Rust Ruby
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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reshape

Posts with mentions or reviews of reshape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.

departure

Posts with mentions or reviews of departure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-04.
  • Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
    At least for Rails there are several gems available (ie https://github.com/WeTransfer/ghost_adapter or https://github.com/departurerb/departure) that seamlessly hook into the existing migration system and will run all eligible migrations through gh-ost or pt-osc as needed. You're right that it's not free but it isn't all that far off either.

    That said, online schema migrations are a specialized tool designed for very big tables that take hours to run an ALTER TABLE on. If all your tables are small enough that alterations take less than a second or so, don't bother and just block the table for a bit. It's fine.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reshape and departure you can also consider the following projects:

pg-online-schema-change - Easy CLI tool for making zero downtime schema changes and backfills in PostgreSQL [Moved to: https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc]

data-migrate - Migrate and update data alongside your database structure.

pgroll - PostgreSQL zero-downtime migrations made easy

pg-osc - Easy CLI tool for making zero downtime schema changes and backfills in PostgreSQL

migra - Like diff but for PostgreSQL schemas

ghost_adapter - Run ActiveRecord migrations through gh-ost

gh-ost - GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

atlas - Manage your database schema as code

litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.

bytebase.com - Source for bytebase.com