4 posts tagged with "migration"

DigitalOcean Managed Databases is a popular starting point for teams that want hosted PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Valkey without managing infrastructure. It does the basics well: provisioning, automated backups, and TLS. But as your data platform matures, the limitations become clear. Four engines, minimal monitoring, no AI-oriented features, no pipeline templates, and no way to export metrics to your own observability stack. FoundryDB offers seven engines, built-in AI presets, predictive autoscaling, database forking, and seven metrics export destinations, all on European infrastructure.

Heroku wound down its free tier in November 2022, and since then the managed Postgres add-on has remained a solid but limited option. If you have been hitting walls with single-engine lock-in, basic monitoring dashboards, no point-in-time recovery on lower plans, and the lack of multi-node high availability, it may be time to move. FoundryDB gives you a full-featured PostgreSQL service (plus six other engines) with automated HA, PITR, predictive autoscaling, and EU-hosted infrastructure, all manageable from a single CLI.

PlanetScale removed its free tier in April 2024 and raised prices across the board, pushing many teams to re-evaluate their MySQL hosting. Beyond pricing, PlanetScale runs on Vitess, a sharding proxy that sits between your application and MySQL. While Vitess handles horizontal scaling well, it introduces compatibility quirks that can surprise you: no foreign key enforcement, limited support for certain joins, and behavior differences from native MySQL. If you want a standard MySQL experience with native replication, foreign keys, and no proxy layer, FoundryDB is a direct path forward.

SQL Server licensing costs add up fast. Per-core pricing, Software Assurance renewals, and the looming end of extended support for older versions push teams to look for alternatives. PostgreSQL is the obvious destination, but rewriting thousands of stored procedures, converting T-SQL syntax, and updating every connection string is a project nobody wants to start.

Babelfish for PostgreSQL changes the equation. It adds a SQL Server wire-protocol layer (TDS) on top of PostgreSQL, so your existing applications connect to port 1433 and run T-SQL queries as before. No driver changes. No syntax rewrites. On FoundryDB, you get a fully managed Babelfish instance running on PostgreSQL 16 with backups, TLS, monitoring, and point-in-time recovery built in.