Developers increasingly need a variety of datastores for their projects -- no one database can serve all the needs of a modern, scalable application. For example, an e-commerce app might store its valuable transaction data in a relational database while user session information is stored in a key-value store because it changes often and needs to be accessed quickly. This is a common pattern across many app types, and the need for a key-value store is especially acute. Today, we are pleased to announce the beta of Heroku Key-Value Store, joining Heroku Postgres as our second data service.
We have deep experience with Redis; internally at Heroku, we use Redis extensively as a queue, as a...