I suppose they have more experience with MySQL given that Youtube runs on it...
Obviously it's not their focus, but this is a fundamental selling point to cloud DB's.
See for example this staggering list of hosting providers in Europe: https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/euro...
Yes, most of those are smaller companies. But some of these companies are directly involved in the development of PostgreSQL (just look at the PostgreSQL-hackers mailing list), so they should really know what they are doing!
I think you bring up a good point. I'm going to put aside my bias and give a smaller company a shot. Thanks for sharing.
When someone like Heroku offers a competing product, the fact that the product is also being run on EC2 is only a part of the overall story. Over time, AWS will probably be less and less happy with earning just the bare infrastructure dollars for such use.
I wanted to use PostgreSQL for a whole host of reasons, but not so much that we wanted to certify our own instances.
It's basically (a better) Heroku with an emphasis on enabling HIPAA/HITECH compliance. They do both app and DB hosting (including Postgres). And it's on AWS so integrates easily with existing infrastructure/code.
Disclaimer: Biased as I know the founders and we use the product. But they are good people and it's a good product!
That's something I heard that used to be true but not sure whether it's still required with upgrades to S3 over the years...
What is more exciting is you can leverage Redshift MPP architecture with this method.
I'm super excited about it. It's great to have more modern managed services on AWS especially since this brings Postgres out of the Stone Age. Lots of good JSON support added in 9.5 and 9.6.
Previously only 9.4 was available.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/04/rds-postg... [1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240278
If needs once a week downtime for half an hour for patches. But if you use multi AZ deployment with 2 instances it does this without any actual downtime. Automatically manages the failover for you.
Provisioned IOPS are very expensive. For small loads use bigger general purposes SSD say 100 to 200gb and it works OK. The IOPS are burstable so it works out OK.
I agree on the IOPS - just get a larger disk (min 100G) even if you'll never use it. Storage is cheap. It's supposed to give you 3k IOPS but doesn't actually give you anywhere near that (but it is still fast). If you do need guaranteed IOPS, then it's wallet-opening time.
Half an hour downtime once a week? This sounds bad.
It seems to be that it's cheaper but it's hard to compare without knowing what the Heroku instances are.
