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Heroku vs Horizon: What are the differences?

Heroku: Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience. Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling; Horizon: *A realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB *. Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications.

Heroku can be classified as a tool in the "Platform as a Service" category, while Horizon is grouped under "Realtime Backend / API".

Horizon is an open source tool with 6.77K GitHub stars and 389 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Horizon's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Heroku

Pros of Horizon

703
Easy deployment
459
Free for side projects
374
Huge time-saver
348
Simple scaling
261
Low devops skills required
190
Easy setup
174
Add-ons for almost everything
153
Beginner friendly
150
Better for startups
133
Low learning curve
48
Postgres hosting
41
Easy to add collaborators
30
Faster development
24
Awesome documentation
19
Simple rollback
19
Focus on product, not deployment
15
Natural companion for rails development
15
Easy integration
12
Great customer support
8
GitHub integration
6
Painless & well documented
6
No-ops
4
I love that they make it free to launch a side project
4
Free
3
Great UI
3
Just works
2
PostgreSQL forking and following
2
MySQL extension
1
Security
1
Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
0
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Cons of Heroku

Cons of Horizon

27
Super expensive
9
Not a whole lot of flexibility
7
No usable MySQL option
7
Storage
5
Low performance on free tier
2
24/7 support is $1,000 per month

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What is Heroku?

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

What is Horizon?

Horizon provides a complete backend that makes it dramatically simpler to build, deploy, manage, and scale engaging JavaScript web and mobile apps. Horizon is extensible, integrates with the Node.js stack, and allows building modern, arbitrarily complex applications.

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What are some alternatives to Heroku and Horizon?

DigitalOcean

We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.

Google App Engine

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Microsoft Azure

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

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