Liquibase ARR surges as firms embrace change governance – IT Brief Asia

Liquibase has reported a sharp rise in fiscal year 2025 new annual recurring revenue, alongside record adoption of its open-source tooling and new product releases focused on database change governance.
The company said new ARR rose by more than 85% year on year. It also said Liquibase Community surpassed 15 million downloads during 2025.
Liquibase markets its software around controlled database change, an area that many organisations still treat as secondary to application code delivery. The company linked demand to larger volumes of change moving through deployment pipelines and to lower tolerance for errors that reach production systems.
Product updates
Liquibase said it launched Liquibase Secure and Liquibase 5.0 during FY25. The company positioned Liquibase Secure around policy enforcement and audit evidence for database changes.
Liquibase described database change governance as a control layer for database updates. It said the approach blocks risky changes from reaching production and generates records of what ran, where and when. The company also pointed to the operational impact of breaking schema changes across applications and data products.
Liquibase also highlighted operating efficiency improvements over the last few years. It did not disclose revenue totals or profitability figures in the announcement.
Market signals
Companies have increased software release frequency over the past decade, supported by automation and continuous delivery practices. Database updates often still sit behind additional controls, given their direct link to production data and the difficulty of rollback in some environments.
Liquibase argued that AI-driven automation increases the consequences of data issues and schema errors. It said more automation increases the need for controls that can show who made a change, what executed and how it moved through environments.
"FY25 was a year of focused execution," said Patti Soch, Chief Executive Officer, Liquibase. "Teams are shipping more change with less tolerance for surprises. As AI increases the cost of bad data and breaking schema changes, database change governance becomes mandatory. Liquibase gives organizations the guardrails and evidence they need to move quickly without losing control."
Partnership expansion
Liquibase also pointed to expanded partnerships with Databricks and MongoDB. The company said these deals relate to governed database change in modern data platforms and AI-driven application workflows.
Liquibase said it worked with Databricks on change management for lakehouse environments. It also said it announced a strategic technology integration with MongoDB focused on governance for AI-driven database changes.
These partnerships sit within a broader push by software tooling vendors to integrate with data platforms, which increasingly host operational analytics and machine learning workloads. Organisations have also moved data engineering and application engineering teams closer together, which increases the number of database changes tied directly to application release cycles.
Recognition and adoption
Liquibase said Liquibase Secure won the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award for Best DevOps for DataOps and Database Solution. It also said it was a finalist in three categories: DevSecOps, Database DevOps and Mainframe Modernization.
The company highlighted growth in its community project, which it said reached more than 15 million downloads in 2025. Liquibase also said the project has been downloaded more than 100 million times in total.
One customer review cited by the company described the perceived gap in the market for database-focused delivery tooling. "Liquibase fixes a problem everyone has but doesn't know there's an answer for," said a Senior Configuration Management Advisor.
Governance features
Liquibase described Liquibase Secure as a product that applies checks before changes reach production and generates reports that record what was applied. It said teams use Policy Checks and Reports in automated deployment processes. It linked those controls to more predictable releases and fewer late-stage issues.
Database teams and platform engineering groups have often relied on manual review steps, ticket approvals and change advisory boards for database updates. A number of vendors now pitch policy-driven enforcement as a way to codify those controls and keep them consistent across environments.
Leadership hires
Liquibase said it added executives during FY25 across sales, marketing and engineering. The company named David De Paula as VP International Sales, Mike Runco as VP Sales, North America, Ryan McCurdy as VP of Marketing, and Steve Surace as VP of Engineering.
The company linked the hires to international growth and enterprise execution. Liquibase said it expects database change activity to expand further inside modern data platforms and AI-driven application workflows.
"Liquibase Secure solves the last mile of DevOps by automating and governing database change across databases and data platforms. AI assisted schema changes move through delivery pipelines, giving teams a consistent, auditable, and fast path for database and data platform updates," said Alan Shimel, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Techstrong Group.

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