Adding and Updating Liquibase Drivers

To establish a connection between Liquibase and your database, you must store the JDBC driver for your database version as a .jar file in your liquibase/lib folder.

Liquibase comes with pre-installed drivers for the following databases:

• DB2
• Firebird
• H2
• HSQLDB
• MariaDB
• MSSQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite

To use another database with Liquibase, you must add the appropriate database driver to liquibase/lib. To replace a driver that’s already in liquibase/lib, delete or rename the existing JDBC file and add the new one. You can download a database’s JDBC driver from its website.

If you specify a value for the driver parameter in your liquibase.properties file, in the CLI, or as an environment variable, make sure it matches the driver in liquibase/lib you want to use. If you use Liquibase with Maven, you can specify the driver in your pom.xml file. For example:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.oracle.database.jdbc</groupId>
    <artifactId>ojdbc8</artifactId>
    <version>13.3.0.0</version>
</dependency>