Why developers like Heroku Postgres

What is Heroku Postgres?

Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.

Heroku Postgres is a tool in the PostgreSQL as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Heroku Postgres?

Companies

124 companies reportedly use Heroku Postgres in their tech stacks, including Digital Services, StackShare API, and Dubsmash.

Digital Services

StackShare API

Dubsmash

Mentimeter

Ludus

Extractly

Voucherify

Hubble

Flutter iOS App

Developers

228 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Heroku Postgres.

SaaS

24 Pull Requests

Tools I Know

Tools

Talking Bible

Northstar National ...

Payments App

Slackware Changelog

Fernando Silveira

Heroku Postgres Integrations

PostgreSQL, Heroku, CircleCI, Stitch, and Backand are some of the popular tools that integrate with Heroku Postgres. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Heroku Postgres.

PostgreSQL

Heroku

CircleCI

Stitch

Backand

Hosted Graphite

pganalyze

Statsbot

RJMetrics

Pros of Heroku Postgres

Easy to setup

Follower databases

Dataclips for sharing queries

Extremely reliable

Decisions about Heroku Postgres

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Heroku Postgres in their tech stack.

Urban Leung

Apr 30, 2022 | 9 upvotes · 32.4K views

Needs advice

Heroku Postgres

and

MongoDB

Hi team, we are building up a ecommerce marketplace with both sides (sellers and buyers), now, we have made the forntend dev, but we are facing the choice of database selection. we would use Amazon S3 as cloud storage, but hard to choose the database between No-SQL (Heroku Postgres and MongoDB) For the tech stack; we are using Next.js and Node.js for the front and backend. so please share your professional input. thanks in advance

Priit Kaasik

CTO at Katana Cloud Inventory · Mar 26, 2019 | 8 upvotes · 495.7K views

Shared insights

Katana

We undertook the task of building a manufacturing ERP for small branded manufacturers. We needed to build a lot, fast with a small team, and have clear focus on product delivery. We chose JavaScript / Node.js ( React + LoopBack full stack) , Heroku and Heroku Postgres (also Heroku Redis ) . This decision has guided us to picking other key technologies. It has granted us high pace of product delivery and service availability while operating with a small team.

Makings of a Katana

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Blog Posts

Dubsmash: Scaling To 200 Million Users With 3 Engineers

Dec 14 2017 at 10:02AM

Dubsmash

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How Sendwithus Sent Their First Billion Emails

Oct 8 2015 at 8:03AM

Sendwithus

+25

3225

How Soylent Ships A Trillion Calories Per Month

Jun 5 2015 at 7:41AM

Soylent

+24

17084

From Minimum Triable Product to MVP - Building A Status Monito...

May 8 2015 at 4:27PM

StatusGator

+20

1009

Heroku Postgres's Features

High Availability
Rollback
Dataclips
Automated Health Checks

Heroku Postgres Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Heroku Postgres?

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

ClearDB

ClearDB uses a combination of advanced replication techniques, advanced cluster technology, and layered web services to provide you with a MySQL database that is "smarter" than usual.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Google Cloud SQL

Run the same relational databases you know with their rich extension collections, configuration flags and developer ecosystem, but without the hassle of self management.

Heroku Redis

Heroku Redis is an in-memory key-value data store, run by Heroku, that is provisioned and managed as an add-on. Heroku Redis is accessible from any language with a Redis driver, including all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku.

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