DBDiff

DBDiff is ranked #1 of 17 in database schema comparison tools on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Migration scripts: Yes
Database scope: multi-engine
CI/CD integration: Yes
Supported platforms: cross-platform

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DBDiff

Purpose: DBDiff compares two local or remote databases and automatically produces a migration file containing their differences.
Database support: DBDiff supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite through its database drivers.
Schema coverage: It diffs tables, views, materialized views, triggers, stored procedures and functions, enum types, composite types, domains, sequences, row-level-security policies and data.
Migration runner: The built-in migration runner provides new, up, down, status, validate, repair and baseline commands.
Migration integrations: DBDiff supports Flyway, Liquibase, Laravel Migrations and other compatible migration tools.
Supabase: The --supabase option selects the PostgreSQL driver and enables SSL automatically, while Supabase policies and row-level-security flags are diffed as first-class objects.
Supabase scope: For Supabase, DBDiff reads the public schema and excludes objects in managed auth and storage schemas from the diff.
PostgreSQL renderer: On PostgreSQL 16 test cases, the built-in renderer reproduced 68 of 90 cases and pg_dump reproduced 81 of 90 when available and new enough.
Installation: Pre-built binaries require no PHP, Node or Composer, while PHAR and Composer installations require PHP 8.1 or newer.
Containers: Multi-architecture Docker and Podman images for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 are published to GHCR on every release.
Performance: Schema diffing uses a constant number of round-trips regardless of table count and has been tested on databases with millions of rows.
Filtering: YAML configuration and CLI options support table inclusion and exclusion, column exclusions, row filters and per-table schema or data scope.
Security support: The security policy lists version 2.0.x as supported, version 1.0.x as unsupported, and requests vulnerability reports by email rather than public issues.
License: The DBDiff repository is released under the MIT license.
Price from: Free

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dbdiff.dev· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/DBDiff/DBDiff/blob/master/SECURITY.md· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/DBDiff/DBDiff· checked 1 Oct 2026
akalsoftware.com· checked 2 Oct 2026