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Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL vs Heroku Postgres: What are the differences?

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Fully-managed database service- set up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational PostgreSQL databases in the cloud. Cloud SQL offers high performance, scalability, and convenience. Hosted on Google Cloud Platform, Cloud SQL provides a database infrastructure for applications running anywhere; 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.

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Heroku Postgres belong to "PostgreSQL as a Service" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Heroku Postgres has a broader approval, being mentioned in 74 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Jorge Perez
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Heroku PostgresHeroku Postgres

Considering moving part of our PostgreSQL database infrastructure to the cloud, however, not quite sure between AWS, Heroku, Azure and Google cloud. Things to consider: The main reason is for backing up and centralize all our data in the cloud. With that in mind the main elements are: -Pricing for storage. -Small team. -No need for high throughput. -Support for docker swarm and Kubernetes.

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David Weinberg
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Good balance between easy to manage, pricing, docs and features.

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Max Musing
Founder & CEO at BaseDash · | 1 upvotes · 45.9K views
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DigitalOcean Managed DatabasesDigitalOcean Managed Databases
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DigitalOcean's offering is pretty solid. Easy to scale, great UI, automatic daily backups, decent pricing.

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      What is Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL?

      With Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, you can spend less time on your database operations and more time on your applications.

      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.

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