3 ms·
Good question. Heroku offers an RDS plugin now only for mysql: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon_rds https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon_rds
by NatW 13y ago
Good question. Heroku offers an RDS plugin now only for mysql: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon_rds https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon_rds
If/when a Heroku RDS plugin for Postgresql arrives, competing benchmarks, a cost calculator, pros and cons would be very interesting, indeed.
Heroku pricing: https://addons.heroku.com/heroku-postgresql https://addons.heroku.com/heroku-postgresql
Amazon pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/ http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
- cmelbye 13y agoDoesn't their RDS add-on merely set DATABASE_URL to the URL that you provide when adding it? Are you sure it doesn't work with MySQL? There's no reason you'd need to wait for Heroku to add support for this, just spin up an RDS instance in us-east-1 and start using the URL Amazon gives you as your database URL.
- bjeanes 13y agoI'm on the Heroku Add-ons team. This is correct. The RDS "add-on" is there simply for people who search for it. In reality, it's just setting DATABASE_URL, and you can do the same yourself.