Refinery vs rev.ng

Refinery is a free, MIT-licensed SQL migration toolkit for Rust applications. It runs migrations against a database connection supplied by the application, either from embedded Rust code or through the refinery_cli command-line tool. Migrations can be SQL files or Rust modules whose migration function returns a String. Refinery records applied versions and metadata, then checks for missing or divergent migrations before running unapplied work. By default, each migration runs in its own transaction; grouped mode can place all migrations in one transaction. Migrations can also be built into a binary, so separate files are not needed at deployment. Listed drivers include postgres, tokio-postgres, mysql, mysql_async, rusqlite, and tiberius; SQLx can be used with a Config implementing Migrate. Driver selection is handled through features. Maintainers describe limited capacity to maintain additional drivers and point to external repositories, naming Klickhouse as an example. Refinery aims to support stable Rust, the previous Rust version, and nightly. To reverse a migration, users must create another migration with the reversing changes.

rev.ng is a decompiler for reverse engineering that turns supported binaries into syntactically valid, standard-compliant C. Its data-structure recovery uses information across functions to identify linked lists, structs, arrays, and arrays of structs. The listed default architectures are x86, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, and S390X; supported imports include ELF, PE/COFF, Mach-O, DWARF, PDB, and IDB. Users can define functions, edit prototypes, and rename items in YAML files, or interact through an HTTP API. The interface is described as available in a browser or standalone app, with cloud and standalone use offering the same experience. Collaborators can share a project URL; public projects include two collaborators. The rev.ng decompilation pipeline is Free Software, while the UI is intended for commercial cloud and standalone versions. The service is free and lists API, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows platforms. The site invites users to join a closed beta for the UI.