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Aiven for PostgreSQL Overview

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What is Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Aiven for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL service. It is full-featured, and backed by a 99.99% SLA. You can launch a fully operational PostgreSQL cluster in the cloud and region of your choice in minutes - using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. You'll have access to premium features, such as Point in Time Restore, database forking, connection pooling, and more. And you can use over 70 PostgreSQL extensions. With Aiven for PostgreSQL, you don’t need to worry about taking backups or applying maintenance updates. All this is done automatically - with no downtime. You can upgrade to a new version, increase the storage of your cluster, expand to new regions or migrate to a different cloud, with a click of a mouse. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and clusters are always run on dedicated virtual machines. The service is ISO27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and PCI/DSS compliant.

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the high availability, the performance and also the response from the aiven team (SLA for response)
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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

It's very easy to set up, and the control panel helps you a lot on setting up the basics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

I'm using Postgres, the control panel could be more advanced, making account management and permissions easier for your databases. I can manage that myself via queries, but that's not as easy.

Also I'm experiencing some speed problems. Even though the database is in the same region on Google Cloud, as my kubernetes cluster is, my php responses take close to 1 second, where that locally is no more than 100ms. I'm not sure yet where the problem is as the Aiven dashboard is showing quick query responses. Further investigation required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Easy and quick to set up. Yet you have to invest some time to set up some proper database security (roles and accounts/permissions) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google SQL is very expensive. I was looking for a cheaper, yet high available solution. Setting up was quick and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

ease of use, option of cloud providers, access management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

can't rename a project, missing axis labels in metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

efficient storage and querying of time series data within a relational DB. Other cloud providers would not offer the timescaledb postgres extension which is vital to achieving our business goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Clean interface, minimalist design, easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

No (obvious) query interface or easy way to see schema (that I could find). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Aiven for PostgreSQL:

Have a PostgreSQL GUI/IDE in mind ahead of time for your data analysts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

chosen because it works with AWS kinesis firehose and many other services (not my decision or expertise) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Very detailed ticket resolution about how problems have been solved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Lack of night mode in the UI, currently in a dark room it is blinding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Removing the need to manage our own postgres instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

The interface is great. I like how easy it is to perform fork and restore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Not enough control when there is an issue or outage. This makes sense because most of the heavy lifting is hidden from the end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

PostgreSQL storage as a service... Having the functionality without needing to maintain the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

- Place in time restores

- Database forks

- Read-only replicas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for PostgreSQL?

Mainly that this isn't the default GCP PostgreSQL. Sorry but it's nice when all your stuff is in one place (or at least a reduced amount of places). I wonder if there's some kind of aggregating console service out there... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for PostgreSQL solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted a managed PostgreSQL service when we moved from AWS to GCP. When I was analysing a bug recently, I discovered the "database fork" feature and was able to easily snapshot the production database (and have it available/connectable for testing) and then fix the data in production to work around the bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Tuomas Lounamaa of Aiven for PostgreSQL
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Thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry, Aiven is not part of Google or GCP :)

One benefit is that you can choose any cloud you'd like to use with our PostgreSQL service. If you are looking to simplify your billing structure you might want to look into our our GCP marketplace offering https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/aiven-public/aiven

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