rust-db/refinery

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Refinery is a SQL database migration toolkit for Rust that runs versioned migrations on database connections, either embedded in Rust code via macros or through a standalone CLI. It supports postgres, tokio-postgres, mysql, mysql_async, rusqlite, and tiberius drivers, and integrates with Barrel for programmatic schema generation.

Use cases

• run sql migrations in a rust application
• version database schema changes for postgres
• embed migrations in rust binary
• migrate sqlite database schema from rust
• run database migrations via cli
• generate schema migrations with barrel
• async database migrations with tokio-postgres

When to choose

• you are building a Rust application that needs versioned SQL schema migrations
• you need migrations embedded in your binary or runnable from a CLI
• you use postgres, mysql, sqlite, or mssql with Rust drivers
• you want programmatic schema generation with Barrel

When to avoid

• you use SQLx and prefer its built-in migration tooling
• you need migrations for non-Rust stacks or polyglot projects
• you need NoSQL or ORM-managed schema evolution

Facets

library · maturity stable

database orm cli databases developer-tools backend rust windows cli sql-migrations database-migrations schema-migration postgres mysql sqlite mssql barrel linux macos

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