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Heroku Postgres VS Galera Cluster

Compare Heroku Postgres VS Galera Cluster and see what are their differences

Heroku Postgres logo Heroku Postgres

Heroku Postgres is an SQL database as a service.

Galera Cluster logo Galera Cluster

Galera Cluster for MySQL is a Multimaster Cluster based on synchronous replication.
  • Heroku Postgres Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-22
  • Galera Cluster Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-04-19

Heroku Postgres videos

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Galera Cluster videos

Choosing between MySQL Galera, MariaDB Galera Cluster and Percona XtraDB Cluster

More videos:

  • Review - High Availability and Scalability with Galera Cluster for MySQL
  • Review - Galera Cluster DDLs and Schema Upgrades Galera Cluster Best Practises

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Heroku Postgres and Galera Cluster)
Databases
67 67%
33% 33
Relational Databases
65 65%
35% 35
NoSQL Databases
62 62%
38% 38
PostgreSQL As A Service
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Galera Cluster seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Heroku Postgres mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Heroku Postgres yet. Tracking of Heroku Postgres recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Galera Cluster mentions (2)

  • Centralize storage for docker. What protocol to use?
    You can do basic master/replica with mysql or mariadb too. Or even multimaster replication with Galera - not the easiest thing to properly configure however. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
    Especially since Galera entered the picture: * https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=galera * https://galeracluster.com/ There's BDR, but it's a commercial product from 2ndQuadrant/EDB: * https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-bdr-2ndquadrant/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Heroku Postgres and Galera Cluster, you can also consider the following products

Amazon RDS - Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership.

PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

MySQL - The world's most popular open source database

Google Cloud Spanner - Google Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service.

MariaDB - An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL

ElephantSQL - PostgreSQL open-source database, hosted in the cloud.