Declarative schema migrations with schema-as-code workflows
Versioned migrations plus a declarative mode that plans the diff.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 8.8k
- Latest
- v1.3.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
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- Language
- Java
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
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- Last push
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