Redgate has over 26 years of experience as a database solutions industry leader, with more than 200,000 data professionals across the globe, including 92% of the Fortune 100, relying on Redgate's solutions to manage their databases.

Redgate Flyway Enterprise's advanced capabilities are built on the same market-leading database comparison technology, continually innovated since 2000, that underpins industry-proven schema comparison solutions in Redgate's portfolio.

As Redgate's enterprise-grade database deployment solution, Flyway Enterprise is built from the ground up for large organizations that need governance, compliance, auditability, and reliable database deployments at scale across complex, multi-environment database estates.

"We needed to partner with an organization that could offer Enterprise level software and support. When we found Redgate and Flyway, even from the first meeting, the support and documentation available demonstrated that this was an Enterprise shop, and over the past 12 months we've been proven right."

Data Team Director, Global pharmaceutical case study

Redgate Flyway is an award-winning database change management solution that brings stability, speed, and governance to database deployments. Using a schema-as-code approach, it versions database changes alongside application code, integrates with CI/CD pipelines, and automates the delivery of migrations from development through to production. With advanced capabilities in its enterprise-grade solution for handling the most complex database changes, it is trusted by organizations worldwide to eliminate manual, error-prone processes that make the database a bottleneck in software delivery.

Redgate Flyway Enterprise is an enterprise-grade database deployment solution designed for large teams, regulated industries, and complex multi-environment estates.

Flyway Community is a free database migrations tool for individual developers and education.

Flyway Enterprise offers a significant layer of database change management capabilities to meet the needs of large teams working at enterprise scale. These include:

• Generation of database migration using Redgate's industry-proven database comparison engine.
• Generation of undo scripts for quicker recover if changes need to be rolledback.
• Advanced object-level and static data versioning for SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and their cloud variants.
• Policy-as-code enforcement through customizable policies that detect security violations, data loss risks, and code quality issues before deployment.
• Advanced change reporting to increase visibility and understanding of what and objects will be changed during the deployment along with full visibility of the actual SQL script to be executed.
• Advanced drift detection and reporting to identify and resolve unplanned database changes – built on Redgate's market-leading database comparison technology for precision and granularity.
• Integration with secret management systems to keep credentials secure in CI/CD pipelines.
• Database change history for audit support and faster troubleshooting if issues occur.

In short, Flyway Community is renowned for its simplicity for the needs of individuals working with straightforward database environments. But it is Flyway Enterprise that is built to handle the complexity, scalability and governance requirements of enterprise database deployments.

Enterprise database estates are rarely uniform. Organizations typically manage multiple DBMS platforms simultaneously, development teams with varying skill levels, and databases distributed across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Flyway Enterprise is purpose-built for exactly this complexity.

Broad DBMS coverage across the entire estate

Flyway Enterprise delivers advanced migration capabilities, including schema comparison, drift detection, and dependency-aware script generation across the four most prevalent enterprise DBMS platforms: SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and their cloud variants.

In addition to these, Flyway Enterprise offers foundational support for 50+ DBMS platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, Cassandra, MongoDB, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, DB2, and more.

This means a single, governed toolchain can manage database changes across an entire enterprise estate, eliminating the fragmentation that comes from maintaining separate tools per platform.

Resolving the challenge of differing expertise across teams

One of the most significant challenges at enterprise scale is inconsistency and lack of a standardized approach - different developers producing database migrations of varying standards across large, distributed teams.

Flyway Enterprise's advanced script generation for SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and their cloud variants addresses this directly. Built on Redgate's industry-leading database comparison engine, it generates accurate, dependency-aware migration scripts with extensive database object coverage. Teams with mixed experience levels consistently produce high-quality, reliable migrations, without requiring deep database expertise in every platform. Script generation can even be automated as part of teams' current processes to smooth adoption.

Standardized governance across every team and environment

Flyway Enterprise enforces standardized, repeatable pipeline workflows so that the same governance policies can apply to every database change regardless of which team, environment, or DBMS platform is involved. This is the foundation of enterprise-scale control: not just automating migrations, but ensuring every migration meets the same quality and compliance standards organization-wide.

At the same time, Flyway Enterprise also allows customization to policies to meet additional requirements across your teams and allows exceptions to policies for legacy code so your deployments are not slowed down. Any exceptions are visible so that policies can't be bypassed without visibility and these exceptions can be setup to require approval.

Measurable business impact at enterprise scale

The business case for Flyway Enterprise is quantified: organizations report an average 59% reduction in time per database deployment and a 7x reduction in change failure rate. This represents the kind of return that justifies standardizing Flyway Enterprise across an entire engineering organization, not just a single team. Find out more in Flyway's Stability with Speed whitepaper.

Flyway Enterprise is designed to integrate into existing enterprise toolchains, without requiring teams to change how they work. It provides integrations with all major CI/CD and release platforms, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, GitLab, Harness and more.

It also works with the popular container environment, Docker, for teams who want to use our verified Flyway Docker image to integrate database deployments into their CI/CD pipelines.

No forced workflow changes – Flyway Enterprise meets teams where they are

Flyway Enterprise supports CLI, GUI, and API ways of working across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This means individual teams can adopt Flyway in the way that fits their existing workflow. Large engineering organizations can roll out Flyway Enterprise consistently while still accommodating the preferences of different teams.

Database migrations as first-class CI/CD artifacts

Flyway Enterprise treats database migrations as first-class pipeline artifacts, equivalent in status to application code. Database changes flow through pull requests and pipeline stages using the same processes already governing application changes - eliminating the parallel, manual processes that create risk and slow down delivery in large organizations.

Shift-left compliance and quality validation

Because database changes are embedded in the pipeline from the start, Flyway Enterprise enables shift-left practices - moving compliance checks and code quality validation to the earliest stages of the development lifecycle rather than at release time. For large organizations managing regulated databases or complex change approval processes, this means issues are caught when they are cheapest to fix, and release gates are reached with confidence rather than risk.

No, and this is a deliberate architectural choice. Redgate Flyway treats the migration script as a first-class artifact, and every migration is written in the native language of the target database (plain SQL for relational DBMS). Unlike some of the other solutions in the market, Redgate Flyway does not require teams to master a proprietary DSL or maintain changes through XML, YAML, or JSON abstractions.

This has significant practical implications for enterprise adoption: onboarding is faster, existing SQL skills transfer directly, and there is no additional abstraction layer to debug if something goes wrong in production.

Regulated industries face specific, non-negotiable challenges around auditability, data loss prevention, and change traceability. Flyway Enterprise helps teams address these challenge through a governed and policy-driven approach to database change management. It does this by ensuring that compliance rules and rigor around developing and deploying database changes are enforced systematically:

Policy-as-code: automated enforcement of compliance and security rules

Flyway Enterprise's policy-as-code approach allows organizations to define customizable rules that are automatically enforced across every migration before deployment. These rules detect security violations, compliance breaches, data loss risks, and code quality issues at the earlier development stages - not at release time.

For regulated industries, this means compliance requirements are not a manual checklist applied inconsistently; instead, they are codified constraints applied uniformly across every team and environment.

A fully governed, repeatable deployment process

Flyway Enterprise combines schema-as-code with a policy-as-code approach to create a deployment process where every database change is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and validated against customizable compliance rules before it reaches production.

This gives regulated organizations the repeatability and consistency that audit and governance frameworks demand.

Complete database change history for auditability and reporting

Flyway Enterprise maintains a full history of every database change from development through to production. This end-to-end change traceability supports compliance reporting, internal audit requirements, and post-incident troubleshooting. It provides the evidence trail that regulated industries require when demonstrating control over their data infrastructure.

Shift-left risk reduction: catching issues when they are cheapest to fix

By embedding compliance checks and code reviews early in the development pipeline, Flyway Enterprise dramatically reduces the cost and risk of late-stage failures. In regulated environments where a non-compliant change reaching production can trigger regulatory consequences, catching violations at the pull request stage rather than at release time is not just an efficiency gain, it is a crucial gain for more effective risk management.

Flyway Enterprise's advanced capabilities are built on Redgate's database comparison engine, which has been in continuous development since 2000 - giving it over two decades of refinement against the edge cases, dependency chains, and schema complexities that mission-critical databases produce in practice.

A proven engine built for complex, mission-critical schemas

The core technology underpinning Flyway Enterprise's advanced capabilities has been tested and refined across enterprise databases worldwide over more than 25 years. The engine is specifically designed to handle dependency resolution for complex databases, including large, monolithic, and legacy schemas where dependency ordering errors can cause catastrophic deployment failures.

For organizations running mission-critical databases where deployment failures are not an option, this depth of engineering maturity is important – particularly when granularity and precision is valued.

Independently validated by customers

Success with Redgate Flyway is validated through G2's Database DevOps software category, where Redgate Flyway has received both High Performer and High Performer Enterprise awards. G2 ratings are derived directly from verified customer reviews, making them a source of recognition for Redgate Flyway's real-world reliability.

Confidence from the scale of Redgate's customer base

When you choose Redgate Flyway Enterprise, you can be confident you're partnering with the database experts at Redgate.

Redgate has over 26 years of experience as a database solutions industry leader. More than 200,000 data professionals across the globe, including 92% of the Fortune 100, rely on Redgate's solutions to enable automation, resilience and efficiency throughout the database lifecycle, ensuring they get the most value out of their databases.

Flyway Enterprise is designed to fit into a complete, end‑to‑end Database DevOps workflow, giving large organizations a consistent, governed process from development through production from a single trusted vendor. This eliminates the integration gaps and operational risk that come from stitching together multiple point tools, while strengthening governance, auditability, and consistency across your organization.

Redgate Monitor adds real-time performance insights, alerting, and deployment-impact tracking so operations teams can validate changes, detect issues early, and maintain reliability across large, distributed estates.

Redgate Test Data Manager (TDM) provides secure, masked, and right‑sized test data to Flyway‑managed environments, ensuring development and testing pipelines remain compliant and production‑realistic helping you catch issues early and resolve them quickly.

Redgate has invested in making enterprise adoption practical, with options to suit the needs of different teams:

• Professional services for guided installs, instructor-led training and configuration sessions
• World-class product support with a CSAT score of 95%, with Premium Support available
• Extensive product documentation and training videos
• Flyway Autopilot – pre-configured sample project for teams to learn approaches quickly without building from scratch
• Redgate University for self-paced learning