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Heroku Redis vs Sequelize: What are the differences?
Developers describe Heroku Redis as "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. On the other hand, Sequelize is detailed as "Easy-to-use multi sql dialect ORM for Node.js & io.js". Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and more.
Heroku Redis can be classified as a tool in the "Redis Hosting" category, while Sequelize is grouped under "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)".
Sequelize is an open source tool with 18.9K GitHub stars and 2.99K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sequelize's open source repository on GitHub.
WebbyLab, Hostr, and Decision6 are some of the popular companies that use Sequelize, whereas Heroku Redis is used by Big Interview, Organize, and Singu. Sequelize has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Redis, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
Pros of Heroku Redis
- More reliable than the other Redis add-ons5
Pros of Sequelize
- Good ORM for node.js42
- Easy setup31
- Support MySQL & MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Sqlite21
- Open source14
- Free13
- Promise Based12
- Recommend for mongoose users4
- Typescript3
- Atrocious documentation, buggy, issues closed by bots3
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Cons of Heroku Redis
- More expensive than the other options1
Cons of Sequelize
- Docs are awful30
- Relations can be confusing10