Heroku Postgres vs Heroku Redis

Overview

Heroku Postgres

Stacks607

Followers314

Votes38

Heroku Redis

Stacks105

Followers163

Votes5

Heroku Postgres vs Heroku Redis: What are the differences?

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.

What is Heroku Redis? Reliable and powerful Redis as a service. 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.

Heroku Postgres belongs to "PostgreSQL as a Service" category of the tech stack, while Heroku Redis can be primarily classified under "Redis Hosting".

Luckycycle, FarmLogs, and Watsi are some of the popular companies that use Heroku Postgres, whereas Heroku Redis is used by Big Interview, Organize, and Singu. Heroku Postgres has a broader approval, being mentioned in 74 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Redis, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Advice on Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis

Jorge

Jan 15, 2020

Needs advice

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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Detailed Comparison

Heroku Postgres	Heroku Redis
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 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.
High Availability;Rollback;Dataclips;Automated Health Checks	Easily Optimize;Vertically Scalable
Statistics
Stacks 607	Stacks 105
Followers 314	Followers 163
Votes 38	Votes 5
Pros & Cons
Pros 29 Easy to setup 3 Follower databases 3 Extremely reliable 3 Dataclips for sharing queries Cons 2 Super expensive	Pros 5 More reliable than the other Redis add-ons Cons 1 More expensive than the other options
Integrations
PostgreSQL Heroku	Heroku Redis

What are some alternatives to Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis?

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon RDS manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high availability and back-ups for disaster recovery. With just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can deploy a PostgreSQL database with automatically configured database parameters for optimal performance. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances can be provisioned with either standard storage or Provisioned IOPS storage. Once provisioned, you can scale from 10GB to 3TB of storage and from 1,000 IOPS to 30,000 IOPS.

Redis To Go

Redis To Go was created to make the managing Redis instances easier, whether it is just one instance or serveral. Deploying a new instance of Redis is dead simple, whether for production or development.

ElephantSQL

ElephantSQL hosts PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 in multiple regions and availability zones. The servers are continuously transferring the Write-Ahead-Log (the transaction log) to S3 for maximum reliability.

Redis Cloud

Redis Cloud is a fully-managed service for running your Redis dataset. It overcomes Redis’ scalability limitation by supporting all Redis commands at any dataset size. Your dataset is constantly replicated, so if a node fails, an auto-switchover mechanism guarantees data is served without interruption.

Database Labs

We manage an optimized Postgres image. You focus on your core app, not on becoming a database administrator.

RedisGreen

Redis drives the best sites on the web, from Twitter to Pinterest. RedisGreen makes it easy for anyone to use. Customers can spin up databases at the click of a button. RedisGreen's future is in very fast tools to make the most difficult aspects of modern web application development faster, cheaper, and less labor-intensive.<br>

Google Cloud Memorystore

Cloud Memorystore for Redis provides a fully managed in-memory data store service built on scalable, more secure, and highly available infrastructure managed by Google. Use Cloud Memorystore to build application caches that provides sub-millisecond data access. Cloud Memorystore is compatible with the Redis protocol, allowing easy migration with zero code changes.

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.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a PostgreSQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Upstash

It provides Serverless Redis and Kafka as a service. With per request pricing, you pay only for what you use. You can use any Redis/Kafka clients. The built-in REST API enables use cases with serverless and edge functions.