Claire Matthews

18 August 2025

Built for simplicity and scalability: why organizations choose Redgate Flyway

Redgate Flyway is renowned for its low-friction, SQL-first approach. Our customer stories share the wins seen in organizations worldwide for Redgate Flyway. And when it comes to community endorsement for Flyway OSS, the GitHub and Docker statistics prove it, with 9k+ GitHub stars and 50M Docker downloads advocating for its appreciation.

Built with simplicity and scalability at its core, Redgate Flyway makes it easy for developers to write migration scripts in their database’s native SQL dialect and deploy them with confidence. Since Redgate acquired Flyway in 2019, we have stood by this ethos, ensuring that our community and OSS editions continue to provide value for individuals and organizations who want a fast set-up. Our enterprise edition has also been enhanced with a range of advanced script generation, checks and reporting capabilities built on Redgate’s best-in-class database comparison technology.

If you’re considering adopting Redgate Flyway or making a switch, here’s what you need to know about its simplicity and scalability.

• It. Just. Works.
  

  Redgate Flyway’s strength lies in its simplicity, with minimal configuration required and an intuitive workflow. With a simple command-line interface, or a Redgate-backed UI (for Community and Enterprise editions), teams can get started in minutes.

  It’s also a SQL-first tool with SQL-based migrations, meaning that in contrast to some other solutions in the market, teams using Redgate Flyway don’t need to learn XML, YAML or JSON just to administer database changes.

  It also integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, making it easy to automate database changes alongside application deployments.

• Simple set-up for low-friction adoption.
  

  Unlike some database change management solutions in the market that require extensive customization to get started, Redgate Flyway has just one simple set-up.

  Whether you’re choosing Redgate Flyway OSS, Community or Enterprise edition, you’ve got a low friction route to experimenting and beginning your Flyway journey.

• Proven and stable, with best-in-class technology.
  

  Since 2019, Redgate has proven its commitment to Flyway, with continual development to its engine, DBMS support, and advanced capabilities through our in-house development teams in Cambridge, UK.

  Redgate’s best-in-class database comparison technology, in continual innovation since 1999, sits at the heart of Flyway Enterprise’s advanced capabilities. When you partner with Redgate for your database change management solution, you’re partnering with that depth of database knowledge built over more than 25 years.

  Translated into Redgate Flyway Enterprise’s advanced capabilities, this means:

  • Deployment scripts generated by Redgate Flyway Enterprise are reliable, repeatable and consistent, with extensive database object coverage
  • Redgate Flyway Enterprise excels in handling database dependencies, making it a robust, risk-reducing solution, whether you’re managing on-premise databases or scaling to cloud-native architectures

• All the benefits of a community-driven core – reviewed by Redgate.
  

  If you’re adopting Flyway OSS first, you get all the benefits of a community-driven core with the reassurance that Redgate reviews repository changes for quality and consistency. Our documentation and forum support is also available 24/7 for our OSS and Community users, with Redgate teams dropping in regularly to ensure content is up-to-date.

  And if you’re scaling to Flyway Enterprise, you have the confidence of world-class vendor support and an enterprise-grade solution that’s ready for you to deliver database changes with more guardrails, more visibility and using best-in-class database comparison technology.

• Ready to scale to your business goals.
  

  Whether you’re modernizing your database estate or wanting to manage monolithic databases with more control, Redgate Flyway is ready to adapt to your needs. It’s not just its simplicity, flexibility of approach and industry-leading technology that make a difference. It’s also about partnering with a vendor that can guide your teams through rollout for even the most complex of set-ups.

Ready to find out more?

Book a consultation with our sales team to discuss your needs, or find out more about the difference Redgate Flyway is bringing to growing organizations in our case studies and why customers love Flyway.