Developers: | Salesforce.com |
Technology: | PaaS - Platform As A Service - the Business platform as service |
The Heroku platform initially was not connected with Salesforce.com and after the purchase which took place in December, 2010 continues to develop in many respects independently. Heroku is a platform of one language which will suit only those developers who have experience with Ruby (or wish to learn this language). However the impossibility of the choice of programming languages is compensated by a wide choice of available storage systems: both traditional DBMS MySQL and PostgreSQL, and a number NoSQL- systems: Cloudant Membase MongoDB MySQL Redis.
The Heroku system, is offered in the market as in the form of the aPaaS-service capable to work in network of data centers of AWS (Amazon Web Sevices).
The new version of Heroku includes the bridge of synchronization of data using which Heroku-applications can work with information an array SaaS of-applications PaaS-DBMS from salesforce.com.