Database DevOps Software allow development teams to automate, manage, and test database changes as part of their continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. These tools facilitate shorter database development cycles by providing functionality that automates change validations, deployments, and dependency resolutions. Database DevOps tools can also provide insight and reporting around database changes, including information relevant to database administrators such as change descriptions, authors, and time. Beyond automation and management, these toolkits can also help companies validate database changes by testing against team-defined standards and security best practices.
Database DevOps Software allow companies to fold database development processes into their existing DevOps strategies. These solutions help bring the application development benefits of DevOps platforms to database development. By applying DevOps principles to their database development process, companies can make sure their database efforts are well defined, consistently compliant, properly automated, and easily manageable.
To qualify for inclusion in the Database DevOps Tools category, a product must:
Connect to a database
Automate elements of database version control, deployments, and/or testing
Grant visibility into database changes made throughout the development process
Enable test-driven database development via iterative changes