Heroku, a provider of platform-as-a-service solutions, announces its release of Heroku Postgres as a stand-alone service.
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider
Heroku has announced that its
Heroku Postgres is available as a stand-alone
service.
The move puts
PostgreSQL in the hands of developers who
do not host their projects on the Heroku platform. Up until now the service was
available only to Heroku customers for use with Heroku platform apps, said
Matthew Soldo, a Heroku engineer, in a
blog
post.
PostgreSQL is an open-source
object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) available for many
platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is
released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license.
"With measured service uptime of
four nines (99.99 percent), and designed data durability of 11 nines
(99.999999999 percent), the service is trustworthy for mission-critical data,"
Soldo said. "As of today, these production-quality Heroku Postgres
databases are independently available for use from any cloud platform,
provisioned instantly, metered by the second, and without contract."
The Heroku database-as-a-service comes
in a variety of
pricing plans
ranging from $200 a month for a 1.7GB cache to $6,400 for a 68GB cache.
Speaking further on the reliability of
Heroku's Postgres solution, Soldo said:
"Heroku Postgres has successfully
and safely written 19 billion customer transactions, and another 400 million
write-transactions are processed every day. Leverage Heroku's scale and
expertise while enabling your team to focus on building great apps rather than
managing and configuring databases."
The Heroku database service has a rich
API, accessible via command-line tools and a clean and simple Web-based UI. "Use
it for provisioning, generating connection strings, viewing usage statistics
and capturing snapshots," Soldo said. "These tools work for both
stand-alone databases and those attached to Heroku apps."
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