Azure Storage vs Heroku Postgres: What are the differences?
What is Azure Storage? Reliable, economical cloud storage for data big and small. Azure Storage provides the flexibility to store and retrieve large amounts of unstructured data, such as documents and media files with Azure Blobs; structured nosql based data with Azure Tables; reliable messages with Azure Queues, and use SMB based Azure Files for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
What is Heroku Postgres? Heroku's Database-as-a-Service. Based on the most powerful open-source database, PostgreSQL. Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.
Azure Storage and Heroku Postgres are primarily classified as "Cloud Storage" and "PostgreSQL as a Service" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Azure Storage are:
- Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Files
- Highly scalable
- Durable & highly available
On the other hand, Heroku Postgres provides the following key features:
- High Availability
- Rollback
- Dataclips
"All-in-one storage solution" is the top reason why over 18 developers like Azure Storage, while over 27 developers mention "Easy to setup" as the leading cause for choosing Heroku Postgres.
According to the StackShare community, Azure Storage has a broader approval, being mentioned in 82 company stacks & 42 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Postgres, which is listed in 74 company stacks and 38 developer stacks.