tern VS Flyway

We have a repo with migrations written in SQL, and we use tern[1] to apply them.

[1]: https://github.com/jackc/tern

If you are using postgres and pgx you may want to use tern.

Recently i started using turn its more fun (IMPO) compared to others tool available https://github.com/jackc/tern

We use https://github.com/jackc/tern library (from the author of the pgx driver). We run migrations in k8s init containers and we do not do rollbacks (only up). Advantages over other popular solutions are:

I’ve been happy with https://github.com/jackc/tern .

I use tern for migrations. It’s from the same Author as pgx so everything in that ecosystem plays well.

Now my next issue is I'm trying to install tern using the "go versions 1.17 and higher" instructions in the docs here https://github.com/jackc/tern

I use https://github.com/jackc/tern + .env files which interpolate with its config for various environments.

Tern is a great language and framework agnostic solution for SQL migrations https://github.com/jackc/tern

Also RedGate, but Flyway has some reasons to recommend it over RedGate Deploy depending on your DBAs/workflows: https://flywaydb.org/

(Though I don't think it is "complete" or "perfect", either.)

EF Migrations are in a really good place now if you like/don't mind C# as a language (and you can easily embed SQL inside the C#, too, but there are benefits to being able to also run high level C# code). With today's tooling you can package your migration "runner application" as a single deployable executable for most platforms. You can build the executable once and run it in all your environments. (The same tool that updates your QA and Staging updates your Prod, testably running the same migrations.) Given the single executable deployable I might even consider using it for projects not themselves written in C#.

There is a bit of tooling needed but is already around. For Java for example I had very good experience with a combination of flyway [1] for migrations, testcontainers [2] for making integration tests as easy as unit tests and querydsl [3] for a query and mapping layer.

[1] https://github.com/flyway/flyway

[2] https://java.testcontainers.org/modules/databases/postgres/

[3] https://github.com/querydsl/querydsl

When software starts using a database, it's advisable to have version control, just as we have Github to control our source code. This is all to be sure about what was executed for that specific version. For Java and Spring boot, we have the Flyway framework that aims to resolve this situation, free of charge.

If you're looking for tools, like https://www.liquibase.com/ or https://flywaydb.org/, which are database-state-based schema migration toolkits - it might be relatively straightforward to build similar ones using Databricks SQL drivers.

Honestly I kind of wish there was a Lukas Eder database migration library. Call it whatever jooq-migration. At least I would have more insight of what is going on (<-- seriously look at the commit history).

This is a 4th option, which should play nice with ArgoCD. The following example runs flyway as a k8s job. The desired migration changes are recorded as files within the chart. This helm chart can be integrated with your application (Using hooks to determine when the migration job is run) or run manually.

By using an opinionated framework within the app/service (like Flyway, Migrate, Diesel, etc). Schema migrations happen on app/service start-up.

Depending on the language or platform there are libraries you can use to manage this, such as Prisma on node and Flyway for Java/JVM.

It's probably overkill but I've used github plus flyway at a couple places in the past which is pretty nice tool for tracking changes to a variety of db's, it's also very helpful if you ever need to replicate a db in a new region/environment.

Flyway