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Lark vs Redgate Flyway comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Lark
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
45th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Redgate Flyway
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
20th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Lark is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redgate Flyway is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Redgate Flyway0.2%
Lark0.3%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2858913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Marketing Specialist (Acquisition & Retention) at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Team collaboration has improved and project tracking is clearer but downtime still causes disruption
I think there are some parts of Lark that have not been translated, and sometimes there is a glitch where the product still uses Chinese words. Lark occasionally experiences downtime, and during those times, we usually use WhatsApp for communication and coordination, which can be frustrating. Regarding Lark's AI capabilities, I believe they are good in terms of governance and security. I think there is still room for improvement regarding the accuracy and reliability of Lark's AI output.
Hassan F - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Developer at DPL
Automated database releases have reduced errors and now save a full day of deployment effort
The best features that Redgate Flyway offers, if I had to pick a few that really stand out, would be multi-environment support. On the migrations tab, I do not need to go to an environment and change settings or anything. I simply change the branches of the environment and it shows me what is available and what has been run on a certain environment. The environment feature is very user-friendly and helpful, so I would keep it at the top of my list. The feature of changing branches on the migrations tab is very helpful. An example of how Redgate Flyway specifically helped with discrepancies is that previously we did not have any tool recording database changes. We work on an Agile Scrum pattern, so we have to do deployments frequently, within every two to three weeks or sometimes four weeks. Previously, we had code repositories for front-end and back-end, but for the database side, we did not have any repository. We were not saving database-related changes in any GitHub or AWS CodeCommit repositories. Every time, we have a Jira board where developers update their scripts. For example, if I work on a ticket and update a stored procedure, I must mention the stored procedure on the ticket. When deployment time arrives, the release manager must pull out or scan all the tickets and extract the objects. For example, if we deploy 10 Jira tickets from a sprint in the next release, we must go through all 10 tickets and see the post-deployments of their tickets. Then we extracted the objects from the development environment, deployed on stage, and then deployed on production. In this scenario, many objects and discrepancies occurred. Sometimes a developer or the release manager would forget the object to take to production. Now, after using Redgate Flyway, I have restricted access as the release manager of my team. I manage the release for my team and have restricted developer access to environments other than the development environment. If developers want to take anything to the next environment such as demo, staging, or production, they must make a script. When they create a script, it is in our record. Now, after using Redgate Flyway, we do not need to scan all the tickets on Jira or see the post-deployments of each ticket. We simply view the Redgate Flyway script showing what has been run from this to this version, and what pending deployments need to be run on production. In this way, it has helped tremendously. I can share that the migrations tab and branch changing helped my team in a specific situation during our second last sprint. Two developers were working on the same object, and one change needed to be deployed on stage while another change needed to be deployed on the demo environment, which is our QA level. Our QA and demo are the same environment, and then we have stage and production. We have three environments other than development. Previously, without Redgate Flyway, what could have happened is that we would take the stored procedure from demo if we needed to deploy it on stage and take it directly to stage. This was our previous practice where we would go to the database explorer, take the stored procedure, and move it to the next environment with the ticket. Now with Redgate Flyway, we have different versions of that stored procedure. We simply took the version of the stored procedure that needed to be on stage, and the second version that needed to be on the QA level remained there. Redgate Flyway helped in this case, and we have many cases.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Lark has positively impacted my organization because our team's work has become more noticeable by the management because we have a clear record of what's going on in the emails and with the work on the technical side."
"Lark has positively impacted my organization by helping us reorganize the to-do work, allowing us to focus more on our tasks."
"Lark has impacted my organization positively; it has been a daily driver and has been excellent."
"Redgate Flyway has positively impacted my organization by maintaining consistency among developers."
"Redgate Flyway has positively impacted my organization by enabling automated database migrations, so there are no manual updates to databases on each deployment to each environment."
"Redgate Flyway has impacted us very positively because we don't have to manually cover all those things."
"Now using Redgate Flyway, we do not need to do any of this procedure, so this whole process has been eliminated, almost a day is saved, and on release day there are 99% chances that the scripts will run successfully without issues."
"I have seen a return on investment with Redgate Flyway in that time was saved significantly for local development."
"Redgate Flyway streamlines the process of database migration and significantly reduces the time for data migration from twenty to twenty-five days down to five to seven days, thanks to the initial time we took for learning."
 

Cons

"Lark occasionally experiences downtime, and during those times, we usually use WhatsApp for communication and coordination, which can be frustrating."
"Lark can be improved by having the ability to switch between personal and team space."
"I have not seen a return on investment at this time; I cannot share any relevant metrics such as time saved, money saved, or fewer employees needed."
"I would not recommend Redgate Flyway for any Microsoft-based solutions or .NET, as it is not compatible at all based on my experience."
"Redgate Flyway works well for small teams but presents conflict issues with larger teams due to version control."
"Sometimes, errors with migrations can be very disappointing, as often it requires deleting everything and starting over."
"Regarding the error mechanism, when we see a Redgate Flyway error in my Spring Boot application, it is very difficult to understand what went wrong."
"Particularly, the error handling mechanism or the force update or forced migration are things I would like to see improved; it is very hard to understand or debug exactly where this migration has failed, and I would not feel confident doing this in a production environment."
"I cannot say that it is highly secure, but the features are good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
29%
Manufacturing Company
21%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
32%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Lark?
I think Lark could be improved in terms of the UI experience. While it is quite nice, some extra AI features would be great, such as transcriptions or live AI feedback. Regarding Lark's AI capabili...
What is your primary use case for Lark?
My main use case for Lark is within the company to share resources, set calendar appointments, schedule meetings, and connect with my team. A specific example of how I use Lark for my team is that ...
What advice do you have for others considering Lark?
My advice to others looking into using Lark is to make sure to check the free version. You might not need to subscribe at all. I would rate this product a 7 out of 10.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Redgate Flyway?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that we have independent work with a separation of roles. We have those maintaining things concerning databases and a team that manages pric...
What needs improvement with Redgate Flyway?
I choose a rating of nine out of ten for Redgate Flyway because the only point is that sometimes it does not automatically handle the schema versioning. If we write something wrong, it just execute...
What is your primary use case for Redgate Flyway?
My main use case for Redgate Flyway is that it is a migration version control tool. I prefer Redgate Flyway because instead of manually running SQL scripts on different environments like dev, QA, a...
 

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