Postgres - SQL Database Service

Operational expertise, built in

Whether it's an index that’s not being used, security patches that have to be applied, or guidance relevant to ensuring your database is performing well, we’re here to guide you along the way. Our guidance is the result of running the world's largest fleet of Postgres databases and interacting with customers for years, giving us great insight into the problems you'll face before it’s too late.


                $ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev

                Adding heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev to sushi... done, v69 (free)

                  Attached as HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_RED

                Database has been created and is available

Easy to set up, secure by default

Ensuring your database is both straightforward to work with and safe for your data are collectively our top priorities. Whether it's our Continuous Protection or giving you tools work fearlessly with your database, we're thinking about these problems so you don't have to.

Your data, how you need it

Data storage is only part of the story. Unleash its potential to gain insight and make decisions. In addition to being able to connect with the business intelligence tools of your choice, Dataclips makes it easy to share SQL query results that stay always up to date.

Expert toolset for unleashing your data

Working with Postgres has never been more intuitive and powerful.

Fork

Forking a database is just like forking source code. Perfectly clone your database with a single command. Test new schema migrations by simply forking your production database and running the new migrations against the fork. Load test by forking and running your testing environment against it.

Follow

Followers are read-only replicas of a database. Followers stay up-to-date with changes to your database and can be queried. Traditionally, setting up and maintaining replication is a difficult and specialized task. But with followers, it just works. Followers provide horizontal scalability by distributing database read traffic.

Continuous Protection

Continuous Protection keeps data safe. Every change to your data is written to write-ahead logs, which are shipped to multi-datacenter, high-durability storage. In the unlikely event of an unrecoverable hardware failure, these logs can be automatically 'replayed' to recover the database to within seconds of its last known state.

Credentials and Settings

Managing your data - and who has access to it - is easy with Heroku Postgres. Credentials allow you to set and manage varying access permissions. You can also tune Settings to adjust the way your database is administered.

Access your data anywhere, scale without worry

Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.

High availability

Where application uptime is critical the Heroku Postgres Premium tier offers higher availability through automatic failover. We take care of uptime so you can focus on growing your application.

Rollback

Your data can be rolled back with a single command. This can be used to quickly recover from accidentally dropped tables, to conduct an audit of historical data, or for any other case where you need to go back in time. With rollback your data is safe from any situation you could encounter.

Dataclips

In order to make good business decisions against your data, it is critical that you can access it. Dataclips goes one step further making it easy to report against live production data, which you can then easily share with a secure, unique URL within your organization.

Automated health checks

Heroku Postgres databases are constantly monitored to ensure the health of your database. Should any health check fail automated processes are kicked off to restore your database to ideal working order.