Liquibase Database Tutorials

Learn more about using Liquibase with your favorite databases with our in-depth tutorials. These tutorials explain how to install and configure your database with Liquibase Open Source and Liquibase Pro.

Prerequisites

Before you start setting up your database, make sure you're familiar with how Liquibase works using these pages:

1. Introduction to Liquibase – Dive into Liquibase concepts.
2. Install Liquibase – Download Liquibase on your machine.
3. Get Started with Liquibase – Learn how to use Liquibase with an example database.
4. Design Your Liquibase Project – Create a new Liquibase project folder and organize your changelogs
5. How to Apply Your Liquibase Pro License Key – If you use Liquibase Pro, activate your license.

Verification levels

Liquibase works with 50+ databases including relational, NoSQL, and graph databases. A database's verification level refers to the levels of automated and real-world professional testing and certification it has passed. The levels are Advanced (highest verification), Foundational, Contributed, and Research (lowest verification).

• Advanced: Database has been tested and validated to deliver a minimum set of advanced capabilities around database inspection, support for long-running operations, as well as the Foundational level's basic functionality of change management and change tracking aligned with the database. The advanced database inspection capabilities include the ability to generate changelogs in at least one format and the support of at least two additional state-based commands (snapshots, diffs, etc). The Liquibase customer support team provides how-to/usage support around verified capabilities for commercial customers.
• Foundational: Database has been tested and validated to deliver the basic functionality of change management and change tracking aligned with the database. Some additional advanced capabilities may be implemented. The Liquibase customer support team provides how-to/usage support around verified capabilities for commercial customers.
• Contributed: Database has not yet met one or several of the requirements around maintainer contact with Liquibase, documentation, or verified functionality to achieve the Foundational designation. Not supported by the Liquibase support team. Best-effort support is provided through our community forums.
• Research: Database is being developed by Liquibase and exist in an experimental phase. The Liquibase customer support team provides how-to/usage support around documented capabilities for commercial customers.

For more information, see Database Verification Levels.

Liquibase-maintained databases

Liquibase tests with English language databases only. Other languages with special characters may cause issues.

The following table shows databases whose compatibility with Liquibase is maintained by Liquibase. For databases maintained by the community, see the "Community-maintained databases" section.

Community-maintained databases

Many Liquibase features are also compatible with databases not officially maintained by Liquibase. Depending on the database, this functionality is built into Liquibase or contained in extensions separate from Liquibase Core.

For documentation on community-maintained databases, see the Liquibase Contribute Documentation site. For a full list of supported databases, see Supported Databases.

Related links

• Liquibase: Supported Databases
• Liquibase: Database Verification Levels
• Liquibase GitHub: A Harness of Integration Tests.
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