ElephantSQL vs Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL vs Heroku Postgres

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Advice on ElephantSQL, Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, and Heroku Postgres

Considering moving part of our PostgreSQL database infrastructure to the cloud, however, not quite sure between AWS, Heroku, Azure and Google cloud. Things to consider: The main reason is for backing up and centralize all our data in the cloud. With that in mind the main elements are: -Pricing for storage. -Small team. -No need for high throughput. -Support for docker swarm and Kubernetes.

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David Weinberg

Good balance between easy to manage, pricing, docs and features.

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Max Musing
Founder & CEO at BaseDash · | 1 upvotes · 48.2K views

DigitalOcean's offering is pretty solid. Easy to scale, great UI, automatic daily backups, decent pricing.

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Pros of ElephantSQL
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    Monitoring
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    Geospatial support
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    Easy setup
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    Easy backup
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      Easy to setup
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      Follower databases
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      Dataclips for sharing queries
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      Extremely reliable

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    Cons of ElephantSQL
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          Super expensive

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        What is ElephantSQL?

        ElephantSQL hosts PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 in multiple regions and availability zones. The servers are continuously transferring the Write-Ahead-Log (the transaction log) to S3 for maximum reliability.

        What is Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL?

        With Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, you can spend less time on your database operations and more time on your applications.

        What is Heroku Postgres?

        Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.

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        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.
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        The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
        PostgreSQL
        PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
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        Redis
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