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Heroku Postgres vs MongoLab: What are the differences?
Developers describe Heroku Postgres as "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. On the other hand, MongoLab is detailed as "Database-as-a-Service for MongoDB". mLab is the largest cloud MongoDB service in the world, hosting over a half million deployments on AWS, Azure, and Google.
Heroku Postgres belongs to "PostgreSQL as a Service" category of the tech stack, while MongoLab can be primarily classified under "MongoDB Hosting".
"Easy to setup" is the top reason why over 27 developers like Heroku Postgres, while over 60 developers mention "Development free tier" as the leading cause for choosing MongoLab.
Lyft, Accenture, and Rocket.Chat are some of the popular companies that use MongoLab, whereas Heroku Postgres is used by Luckycycle, FarmLogs, and Watsi. MongoLab has a broader approval, being mentioned in 102 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Postgres, which is listed in 74 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.
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.
Good balance between easy to manage, pricing, docs and features.
DigitalOcean's offering is pretty solid. Easy to scale, great UI, automatic daily backups, decent pricing.
Pros of Heroku Postgres
- Easy to setup29
- Follower databases3
- Dataclips for sharing queries3
- Extremely reliable3
Pros of MongoLab
- Development free tier61
- Easy setup46
- Scalable mongo hosting38
- Heroku plugin25
- REST API14
- High availability9
- Geospatial support9
- Replication and backups5
- Premium support5
- Multi-cloud2
- Largest and most experienced1
- Azure Add-on1
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Cons of Heroku Postgres
- Super expensive2
Cons of MongoLab
- Lab bought by MongoDB. Being replaced by Atlas1
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