# Heroku Postgres Reviews **Vendor:** Heroku **Category:** [Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Heroku Postgres Heroku Postgres is an SQL database as a service. ## Heroku Postgres Reviews ### 1. Reliable and Easy-to-Use Database Service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isak P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** Heroku Postgres is a cloud-based database management system that is incredibly easy to use and highly reliable. One of the biggest advantages of Heroku Postgres is its ease of deployment and integration. Developers can easily deploy their databases to their Heroku applications with a single click. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** While Heroku Postgres is a highly reliable and user-friendly platform, there are a few potential downsides to be aware of. One is that the platform can be expensive, especially for businesses that require a large amount of storage or processing power. Additionally, while the platform offers many built-in features, some developers may find it limiting in terms of customization. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** Heroku Postgres provides affordable and easy to setup data persistence on the same platform where the applications utilizing it are located. It easy to maintain and scale. ### 2. Heroku postgres the tool to help you communicate with your app data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik C. | Innovation Engineer, Industrial Automation, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** The best thing about postgres is how easy it is to install it on your computer, where heroku gives you your credentials and you are already connected, you do not have to configure many things regarding ports, it is also very friendly with its interface with options that make it easy to make queries to your heroku tables, you can update and see in real time what is happening with the data and your tables and you can make any sql statement **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** What I don't like about heroku postgres is the fact that heroku gives you this compatible tool to communicate with your database made by heroku, there can be differences when you make your app in any programming language where you use frameworks that interact with the database engine and this as it is postgress some versions are updated when you upgrade your database to a paid one or another tier bigger than the one you had it becomes tedious to reconfigure if you change the version of postgress. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** Heroku postgres helps me to have a view of the data as I knew it from before, I as a sql developer previously only knew how the data was related in tables, now that I am making my web application I have to do more than a sql developer but without ceasing to be one, this helps me not to stagnate in learning the operation of postgres as it is not difficult ### 3. Great DB integration for newcomers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mauricio O. | Innovation and Technology Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** It is all already setup from heroku side, so you can easily deploy your application without having to worry about DevOps tasks, it is great if you are newcomer in the world of development **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** Currently nothing to dislike here, the integration runs flawless in my opinion, heroku makes it so simple to use, also you can download postgreSQL pgAdmin 4 to view the data **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an easy way to have an RDMS for your applications, there is a great scope to keep growing your development, so it is a natural step forward from other DB Admin applications like sqlite ### 4. Good Online Database solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit M. | Cloud Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** heroku postgres is very good online tool and it is almost similar to any available database system available in the market.it is super fast and easy to use for everyone. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** i have used it to develop 1 of the project and at the initial level i found it little inconvenient to configure on my local machine apart from that nothing is problematic. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** its a online database management system, we cam use it to store the data and use it on almost every available platform on the internet.it is easy and serves great functiolity.its cloud based. ### 5. Its a no headache postgres solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shuja S. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** Taking backups and downloading on demand, automatic maintenance upgrades, point in time recovery and also the ability and also the availability of pg_bouncer is everything I could ask for. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** Ability to upgrade a database plan without having to manually export and restore would be great. Especially if you decide to stay on a free plan while a new application is still in testing. Just an annoyance but not a deal breaker. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** This removes the effort of managing the backups and applying patches and maintenance. ### 6. A Relational Ready to use Database service provided by heroku **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashok D. | Ruby on Rails Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** - we can integrate the Postgres database with minimal configurations - just one click upgrade to large size database without losing your data - gives performance analytics matrix - for the staging environment and test application provide a free tier so you don't need to worry about closing of testing applications. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** - pricing for the production database is much higher - Postgres version upgrade is a bit risky - once you purchase a higher plan downgrading to lower plan risks your data. **Recommendations to others considering Heroku Postgres:** - if you don't want a headache with database maintenance just go for it. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** - data persistency achieved Heroku Postgres. - query the relational database with minimal query cost if used effectively - database maintenance reduces because it takes automatic backup so we can restore it anytime. so all of your data is not at risk ### 7. Postgres database deployment has become easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neha U. | Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** Heroku is known for its cloud features and services with the best user interface and easy to use service. Its free or trail feature to deploy your postgres database in this Heroku server is at it's best. Even though it is free to use for trail users its support and and services are very powerful and easy to deploy within few steps **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** Even though it has got its best in form of user interface it comes up with lot of non mandatory fields to configure for a simple configuration and it doesn't support more connections for trail users for one server. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had my postgres database deployed in Heroku where I usually keep on creating lot of projects with data saved in postgres and I found Heroku is the best platform to deploy the database for free. ### 8. Good cloud SQL database service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit S. | Back End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** It is a must-try service for a company as well as new developers. It is free up to some extent, and the good thing is a free user can also create manual backups and export its data. Here many databases can be created, or even a user can reset the whole database whenever needed. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** Heroku Postgres is a good one, so there's nothing to dislike. But the pricing of a database is high, and no automatic database backup functionality for free users. **Recommendations to others considering Heroku Postgres:** Data is a most valuable asset to anyone, and the good thing about Heroku Postgres is that it is free up to some extent, so if you are a new developer, you should go for it. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data is the most valuable thing in this world, and with this, i can safely save the user's data without any tension. The database here is SSL protected, which gives me relief. ### 9. Relational Database From Heroku **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik R. | Ruby on Rails Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** One of the best things I like is configuration is easy. You can also run a database console with different apps. The most helpful thing is to take database backup and erase and add a new database. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** I haven't faced any issues right now. So all over, nothing to dislike about Heroku Postgres. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** To persist data. To fetch relation data. Fetch query is complex. ### 10. The best solution for most people using postgres on Heroku **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun K. | Co-founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** - setup, maintenance, and URL rotation is extremely easy - useful tools for slow queries and monitoring - plenty of great troubleshooting material - works well with other heroku plugins - backups, upgrades, and basic security are taken care of for you **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** - no admin access or custom postgres extensions. if you need these advanced use cases, you will want another postgres plugin. - gets pretty expensive as you scale **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** - we wanted a database setup that worked with minimal configuration. with Heroku Postgres, we spend a lot less time on the operational parts (maintenance, resource management, etc) of the database, and a lot more on business logic and application performance. it makes our product iteration cycle significantly faster. ### 11. Well integrated and easy to use Database platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Heroku Postgres?** The built-in integrations to so many third-party tools make this product an excellent choice for businesses of all sizes. **What do you dislike about Heroku Postgres?** I have no complaints yet. I guess there could be a qualm with the size of the free tier, but for my use cases, it hasn't been an issue. **What problems is Heroku Postgres solving and how is that benefiting you?** Heroku Postgres is our main database housing all active transactions for our business. We have successfully tied it into our web app, mobile app, and even our salesforce instance. ## Heroku Postgres Discussions - [What are two features of Heroku connect?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-two-features-of-heroku-connect) - 1 comment - [View Heroku Postgres pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/heroku-postgres/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+21%3A00%3A09+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e062e123-0d23-44f4-b03d-f8bd8e85b128&secure%5Btoken%5D=2f61ded7421c9e91dec8b0c73a8041f045ec229b6b3e018b95f84e4feb4d138f&format=llm_user) ## Heroku Postgres Features **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics ## Top Heroku Postgres Alternatives - [Google Cloud SQL](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-sql/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (354 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (738 reviews) - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (499 reviews)