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Liquibase provides a platform for governing and automating database change management across pipelines, platforms, and teams, integrating with tools like ServiceNow, GitHub, Harness, and Terraform. It supports over 65 databases and adds governance, security, policy checks, drift detection, and audit evidence for enterprise database delivery workflows.
Also known as Datical
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Liquibase (Liquibase Inc.) develops software for database change management and database DevOps. Its platform targets the database release step of the software development life cycle, automating changes that are otherwise applied manually and that often represent the slowest part of a deployment. The system can also simulate the impact of prospective database changes so teams can review them before they are deployed, which the company positions as a way to reduce errors that can lead to application performance problems, downtime, or data breaches.
The product line spans a free/community offering and a commercial edition marketed as Liquibase Secure, alongside support and services, and covers a range of supported databases. Company materials describe use cases including compliance and audit, database security, developer self-service, AI-ready databases, shift-left observability, governance of the modern data stack, and public sector deployments, with industry pages for financial services and insurance. The company also maintains open-source repositories, including extensions such as liquibase-cassandra, and community resources including a user forum, documentation, and a university/training site.
Liquibase operates as an Austin, Texas company and previously did business under the name Datical. It publishes an annual Database DevOps Adoption & Innovation Survey and runs developer-relations programs aimed at developers, DBAs, DevOps engineers, and data scientists.
Founding story
Pete Pickerill co-founded the company; prior to that he worked at Austin startups including Phurnace Software (acquired by BMC), WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec) and LoopOne (acquired by Neopost).
Business model
Liquibase offers a free entry-level product alongside paid commercial editions (Liquibase Secure) with published pricing, plus support and professional services for enterprise customers.
Commercial software licensing/subscription for its paid editions plus support and services revenue, layered on a free community product.
Traction
Reported 94 percent revenue growth and a 30 percent year-over-year increase in customer acquisition in the year preceding its December 2018 Series C, with plans to hire across engineering, customer success, sales and marketing.
Latest developments
In January 2025 co-founder Pete Pickerill rejoined as Head of Developer Relations and the company launched its 2025 Database DevOps Adoption & Innovation Survey. Subsequent company blog posts address AI governance and data-layer governance themes and describe an expansion of public sector reach with Carahsoft, and the company has previewed a forthcoming Change Intelligence capability.
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Market position
Positions itself in the database DevOps and database change management category, comparing its offering directly against Flyway; at the time of its 2018 Series C it reported serving large enterprises and growing revenue 94 percent year over year.
Technology
Liquibase automates database change deployment, tracking applied changes in changelog tables and using a lock mechanism to ensure a single active upgrader modifies a database at a time. It integrates with CI/CD pipelines and application frameworks such as Spring Boot, supports a broad set of databases through extensions (including Apache Cassandra), and adds governance, policy enforcement and observability capabilities at the data layer.
Go-to-market
The company combines a free, developer-oriented community product and open-source projects with enterprise sales, and invests in developer relations, community forums, documentation and training. It has expanded public sector reach through a partnership with Carahsoft, and maintains AWS-related solution offerings.
Enterprise development, DevOps, DBA, data engineering and data science teams, including customers in financial services, insurance and the public sector.
Geography
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a global engineering organization; expansion into new geographies was a stated use of the 2018 Series C proceeds.
History
The company launched in 2012 and previously operated under the Datical name; by 2018 it had raised $27 million in total funding. Co-founder Pete Pickerill spent more than a decade at the company, left in 2024 for a product management role at a cybersecurity SaaS company while continuing as an advisor, and returned in January 2025 as Head of Developer Relations. Derek Hutson served as CEO at the time of the Series C; the company is now led by CEO Patti Soch, previously its Chief Financial Officer.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsCompany blog post describes bringing database change under control in government through an expanded public sector partnership with Carahsoft.
Co-founder Pete Pickerill rejoined Liquibase as Head of Developer Relations after a year away, during which he advised the company and worked as a product manager at a cybersecurity SaaS company.
Liquibase launched its 2025 Database DevOps Adoption & Innovation Survey covering trends across modern data pipelines.
The company announced a $10 million Series C round led by new investor River Cities Capital Funds, bringing total funding to $27 million since its 2012 launch; proceeds were earmarked for hiring in engineering, customer success, sales and marketing and entry into new geographies.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Liquibase do?
- Austin-based company whose platform automates and governs database change management for DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Who founded Liquibase?
- Liquibase was founded by Robert, Pete, Nathan.
- Who are Liquibase's investors?
- Liquibase's investors include S3 Ventures, Mercury Fund.