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Heroku vs jFrog: What are the differences?

Developers describe Heroku as "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. On the other hand, jFrog is detailed as "Universal Artifact Management". Host, manage and proxy artifacts using the best Docker Registry, Maven Repository, Gradle repository, NuGet repository, Ruby repository, Debian repository npm repository, Yum repository.

Heroku and jFrog belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Heroku has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1504 company stacks & 964 developers stacks; compared to jFrog, which is listed in 22 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Pros of Heroku
Pros of jFrog
  • 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
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    Security
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    Cons of Heroku
    Cons of jFrog
    • 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 jFrog?

      Host, manage and proxy artifacts using the best Docker Registry, Maven Repository, Gradle repository, NuGet repository, Ruby repository, Debian repository npm repository, Yum repository.

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