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    amacneil/dbmate

    🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

    database
    devops
    backend
    clickhouse
    cpp
    database-migrations
    database-schema
    docker
    Go
    MIT
    7.5K stars
    389 forks
    25 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 19 days ago, with 82 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • A lightweight, framework-agnostic command line tool for managing database schema migrations using plain SQL.
    • Provides atomic, timestamp-versioned migrations supporting multiple databases with a single self-contained binary and no SaaS dependencies.
    • Use for synchronizing database schemas across multiple developers and production servers in polyglot environments.
    • Use for automating database creation, migration, rollback, and schema dumping in CI/CD pipelines.
    • Use for embedding migrations into Go applications to programmatically manage database schema changes.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

    Dbmate is a database migration tool that will keep your database schema in sync across multiple developers and your production servers.

    It is a standalone command line tool that can be used with Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Rust, C++, or any other language or framework you are using to write database-backed applications. This is especially helpful if you are writing multiple services in different languages, and want to maintain some sanity with consistent development tools.

    For a comparison between dbmate and other popular database schema migration tools, please see Alternatives.

    Excerpt from the amacneil/dbmate README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    389+28

    Open issues

    39-7

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