Yes, this is definitely a useful point of comparison! We hesitated to mention database migrations too much in the essay for the reason you mention: in some sen

Yes, this is definitely a useful point of comparison! We hesitated to mention database migrations too much in the essay for the reason you mention: in some sense, the whole point of Cambria is that you never do a one-time "migration", but rather you just continuously translate the data. Still, using the system does feel pretty similar to doing database migrations, and we intentionally modeled some of the dev workflow after ActiveRecord migrations: https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html#developer-workflow https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html#developer-workflow