Heroku Postgres vs InfluxDB

Heroku Postgres vs InfluxDB: What are the differences?

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; InfluxDB: An open-source distributed time series database with no external dependencies. InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It has a built-in HTTP API so you don't have to write any server side code to get up and running InfluxDB is designed to be scalable, simple to install and manage, and fast to get data in and out..

Heroku Postgres can be classified as a tool in the "PostgreSQL as a Service" category, while InfluxDB is grouped under "Databases".

Some of the features offered by Heroku Postgres are:

• High Availability
• Rollback
• Dataclips

On the other hand, InfluxDB provides the following key features:

• Time-Centric Functions
• Scalable Metrics
• Events

"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 27 developers like Heroku Postgres, while over 36 developers mention "Time-series data analysis" as the leading cause for choosing InfluxDB.

InfluxDB is an open source tool with 16.7K GitHub stars and 2.38K GitHub forks. Here's a link to InfluxDB's open source repository on GitHub.

trivago, Redox Engine, and Thumbtack are some of the popular companies that use InfluxDB, whereas Heroku Postgres is used by Luckycycle, FarmLogs, and Watsi. InfluxDB has a broader approval, being mentioned in 119 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Postgres, which is listed in 74 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.