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Index › Vendors › Heroku Postgres · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Heroku Postgres

6Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Heroku Postgres was named 4 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business24 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market73 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise65 of 78

under the label threshold

In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Heroku Postgres for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	73 of 73	75%	4	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Heroku Postgres yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Heroku Postgres across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“### PostgreSQL (specifically Heroku Postgres, Supabase, or RDS for PostgreSQL) - Open-source preference” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid hosting production workloads here if you expect moderate-to-high traffic or need to manage costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid Heroku Postgres (if you want a future-proof service)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

“Expensive scaling — costs grow aggressively beyond hobby tier” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Heroku Postgres, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heroku Postgres was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Supabase6 of 61Not in the top three

Amazon RDS4 of 61Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database4 of 60Not in the top three

Neon4 of 60Not in the top three

PlanetScale4 of 60Not in the top three

Render Postgres4 of 60Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora3 of 61Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases3 of 61Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL3 of 60Not in the top three

Oracle Autonomous Database3 of 60Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Heroku Postgres. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 6 answers that named Heroku Postgres and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

advisionit.cloud1

auxiliar.ai1

aws.amazon.com1

azimuddin.bd1

blogs.oracle.com1

continuent.com1

crn.com1

dev.to1

docs.aws.amazon.com1

endoflife.date1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Heroku Postgres came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

advisionit.cloud/aws-cloud-databases-rds-aurora-dynamodb-documentdb1

auxiliar.ai/database1

aws.amazon.com/rds1

azimuddin.bd/blog/firebase-realtime-database-vs-firestore-choosing-the-right-nosql-databas1

blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/license-investment-byol-autonomous-database1

blogs.oracle.com/support/license-investment-byol-autonomous-database1

continuent.com/resources/blog/challenges-and-risks-cloud-based-managed-mysql-data-services1

crn.com/news/cloud/2025/the-10-biggest-cloud-outages-of-2025-aws-google-and-microsoft1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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