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Comparison · DevOps
Heroku vs Tigris
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Heroku and Tigris — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Heroku vs Tigris: at a glance
| Feature | Heroku | Tigris |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | DevOps, Infra & APIs | DevOps |
| Velocity score | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Top themes | managed postgres, runtime upkeep, deprecation cadence, buildpacks | object-storage, immutability, agent-native, s3-compatibility |
| Last editorial update | 4d ago | 11h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
What is Heroku?
Runtime bumps fill the changelog; the managed Postgres line is where Heroku actually moves.
Day to day, Heroku's changelog is language-runtime upkeep: Python, Node, Ruby, Go, PHP, JRuby and .NET point releases, buildpack refreshes for Pipenv and uv, and periodic rebuilds of the Heroku-22, Heroku-24 and Heroku-26 stacks now maintained in parallel. The exception is the managed database. Postgres 18 entered beta on 14 July and reached general availability on 4 August, and Heroku deprecated Postgres 15 on the same day.
What is Tigris?
Tigris still ships features inside essays, and the newest one is a recycle bin.
The feed is a blog, not a changelog, and each post is an engineering argument that happens to carry a product change. This window has three: a recycle bin for objects and buckets built on immutable storage so deletion in a geo-replicated active-active system stops meaning data loss, agent-native onboarding via tigris init --agent, and a CLI that migrates an entire bucket from any S3-compatible provider in one command. The rest are essays on SigV4, presigned URLs, and ClickHouse restore economics.
Heroku vs Tigris: editorial side-by-side
Heroku
5.0DEVOPSINFRA · APIS
Runtime bumps fill the changelog; the managed Postgres line is where Heroku actually moves.
◆ Current state
Day to day, Heroku's changelog is language-runtime upkeep: Python, Node, Ruby, Go, PHP, JRuby and .NET point releases, buildpack refreshes for Pipenv and uv, and periodic rebuilds of the Heroku-22, Heroku-24 and Heroku-26 stacks now maintained in parallel. The exception is the managed database. Postgres 18 entered beta on 14 July and reached general availability on 4 August, and Heroku deprecated Postgres 15 on the same day.
◆ Where it's heading
The platform is running two clocks at once. One is a near-daily maintenance cadence that keeps supported runtimes current and rarely changes behaviour. The other is a deliberate, publicly staged lifecycle for the data services, where a major version is walked from beta to GA and the version three releases behind is retired in the same announcement. Kafka is on the same track, with 2.8 and 3.7 deprecations and a revised version-support policy posted in late July.
◆ Prediction
Given that Postgres 15's deprecation was announced alongside 18's general availability, the next concrete step is a published end-of-life date and forced-upgrade window for Postgres 15. The runtime bumps will continue at their current weekly rhythm.
Tigris
5.0DEVOPS
Tigris still ships features inside essays, and the newest one is a recycle bin.
◆ Current state
The feed is a blog, not a changelog, and each post is an engineering argument that happens to carry a product change. This window has three: a recycle bin for objects and buckets built on immutable storage so deletion in a geo-replicated active-active system stops meaning data loss, agent-native onboarding via tigris init --agent, and a CLI that migrates an entire bucket from any S3-compatible provider in one command. The rest are essays on SigV4, presigned URLs, and ClickHouse restore economics.
◆ Where it's heading
Two arguments run underneath everything: object storage should be the durable state layer for agents, and S3 compatibility is a surface to be explained rather than merely claimed. The SigV4 and presigned-URL posts are the second argument in practice — publishing where the protocol is dangerous is a credibility play against the incumbent. The recycle bin extends the immutability story into a place immutable systems usually struggle, which is undoing a mistake.
◆ Prediction
Expect more posts that pair a protocol critique with the Tigris behavior that answers it; the egress-cost framing from the ClickHouse post is the one most likely to recur as a paid migration path.
Alternatives to Heroku and Tigris
Other DevOps products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Heroku or Tigris.
Meilisearch
A week of walking back v1.52.0 while the sharding work ships on a parallel tag
Prometheus
Two branches running in parallel: 3.13 LTS on security patches, 3.14 promoting experiments to stable.
Kubernetes
The blog has become a teaching channel, with the real releases arriving as Gateway API and deprecation notices.
Vitest
Vitest 5 reaches RC after a beta line that reworked config, mocking defaults, and the browser runner.
Swagger UI
A dependency-bump treadmill interrupted by the first real accessibility push in months.
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Recent activity from Heroku and Tigris
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoTigrisExtending immutability: deletion without losing data
- 6d agoHerokuPostgres 18 GA and Postgres 15 deprecation; Python 3.14.7 and 3.13.15
- 6d agoTigrisSigV4 authentication is surprisingly complicated
- 15d agoTigrisHumans don't install software themselves anymore, their agents do
- 27d agoTigrisThe Most Expensive ClickHouse Query Is the Restore
- 27d agoHeroku.NET SDK updates across the 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 lines
- 28d agoHerokuPostgres 18 enters beta; sbt 2 supported for Scala apps
- 29d agoTigrisPresigned URLs are technically a security vuln
- 29d agoHerokuHeroku-22, Heroku-24 and Heroku-26 stacks updated
- 1mo agoHerokuPython buildpacks updated to Pipenv 2026.6.2 and uv 0.11.28
- 1mo agoHerokuNode.js 26.5.0 now available
- 1mo agoTigrisMigrate your data with the Tigris CLI
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Heroku and Tigris?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Heroku and Tigris are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Heroku better than Tigris?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Heroku and Tigris are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other DevOps products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Heroku?
Top Heroku alternatives in DevOps are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Heroku alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/heroku for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Tigris?
Top Tigris alternatives in DevOps are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Tigris alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tigris for the full list with editorial commentary on each.