Heroku Postgres vs MongoLab: What are the differences?
Developers describe Heroku Postgres as "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. On the other hand, MongoLab is detailed as "Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB". mLab is the largest cloud MongoDB service in the world, hosting over a half million deployments on AWS, Azure, and Google.
Heroku Postgres belongs to "PostgreSQL as a Service" category of the tech stack, while MongoLab can be primarily classified under "MongoDB Hosting".
"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 27 developers like Heroku Postgres, while over 60 developers mention "Development free tier" as the leading cause for choosing MongoLab.
Lyft, Accenture, and Rocket.Chat are some of the popular companies that use MongoLab, whereas Heroku Postgres is used by Luckycycle, FarmLogs, and Watsi. MongoLab has a broader approval, being mentioned in 102 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Postgres, which is listed in 74 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.