ActiveMQ vs Heroku Postgres: What are the differences?
ActiveMQ: A message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License; 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.
ActiveMQ belongs to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack, while Heroku Postgres can be primarily classified under "PostgreSQL as a Service".
"Open source" is the top reason why over 9 developers like ActiveMQ, while over 27 developers mention "Easy to setup" as the leading cause for choosing Heroku Postgres.
ActiveMQ is an open source tool with 1.51K GitHub stars and 1.05K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ActiveMQ's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Heroku Postgres has a broader approval, being mentioned in 74 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to ActiveMQ, which is listed in 33 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.