G2

Diego P.

VP of Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/21/2024

"Good database migration tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Alembic?

I really like that is very easy to use, the initial setup cost me just 2 hours of reading and implementation. It controls all the database versioning in a really easy way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alembic?

I was migrating from a PHP system into alembic, and I had to recreate the initial state of the database in Python, for me it was creating a migration from scratch pointing to the database and create a script that autogenerate all the python models. That part was easy, the problem was that once the database was supposed to be in sync with alembic, after the first migrations I generated it started to detect missing changes, and I had to start refactoring more tables and foreign keys to make sure the db was in total sync Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alembic solving and how is that benefiting you?

As we have different teams and verticals in the company, Alembic helps the team to have a versioning system for the database, this helps a lot with the synchronization of the team when they are pushing new features to the company products. Also, it serves as the tool that allows the data team to own the database and ensure the architecture is reliable, scalable, and with proper performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.