I saw a blip on the add-ons page about PostgreSQL 8.4 with PostGIS support, and became curious as to what's on the roadmap for Heroku SQL databases?
Lately I've been comparing the PostgreSQL 8.3 option with Amazon RDS (MySQL): - PostgreSQL has some nifty features like Arrays, the PostGIS stuff (but not with Koi), and some recursive stuff (in 8.4): http://www.davidcramer.net/code/django/6939/scaling-threaded-comments-on-django-at-disqus.html - Amazon RDS allows remote connections (like with Sequel Pro) where as Heroku only provides Rails console and TAPS. - It would be easy to share RDS across multiple apps (on Heroku or otherwise), where as it isn't clear that this is supported with Koi/ Ronin. - As you grow, Amazon RDS makes it easy to add read-replicas and other fancy stuff that Heroku doesn't officially offer - RDS would take some setup, where as PostgreSQL is automagically provided by Heroku. - I'm not sure if there latency is equivalent with RDS. Anyone with experience? Then there is the price. Koi is very reasonable $15/month, and probably would be enough for most anything I would want to do. But the jump to Ronin is extreme. As another member pointed out, RDS is ~$80/month for a Small (1 ECU) which sounds equivalent to a Ronin for $200/month. Add in reserved instances and RDS looks even more attractive (the annual fee + monthly rate average out to about $50/ month). Does Heroku have any plans of being competitive with Amazon's offering? (and I'm not only talking price) But speaking of price, back in January we heard "This is the first in a series of changes we hope will bring our pricing more inline with the value our customers get from the platform." And it was good, but nothing since. Hm. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
