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Aiven
What do you like best about the product?
Some glitches in the UI, love the terraform support, we can concentrate on building services instead of maintaining them.
What do you dislike about the product?
More services and maybe running kubernetes pods in any cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of our services and alerting.
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Easy way to use Kafka without dealing without the need to stand it up yourself
What do you like best about the product?
- Dealing with the complexity of installing and running the Kafka is taken away from you.
- It had sensible configuration out-of-the-box so I didn't have to deal with the myriad of Kafka settings.
- Support for log compacted topics.
- Integration with other third party services.
- I also liked having a 30-day trial period.
- It had sensible configuration out-of-the-box so I didn't have to deal with the myriad of Kafka settings.
- Support for log compacted topics.
- Integration with other third party services.
- I also liked having a 30-day trial period.
What do you dislike about the product?
- The server certificate is not signed by a public CA, so additional configuration is needed for clients to add a truststore. My guess is that each server cert is dynamically generated for each new user doing the trial, so this is a minor issue. But I wonder if a wildcard cert signed by a public CA would still give the security you want, and give the convenience of not worrying about a truststore.
- Aiven requires clients use a client certificate. This is reasonable, but adds friction for trial users who need to deal with creating a keystore for any clients they want to use. If there were documentation that showed the explicit steps to create the keystore (and trustore, from the previous point), that would be very helpful. You could go even further and pre-create the keystore and trustore, along with instructions for how to configure clients to use them, such as a Java client, of the Kafka Tool GUI (http://www.kafkatool.com/).
- Aiven requires clients use a client certificate. This is reasonable, but adds friction for trial users who need to deal with creating a keystore for any clients they want to use. If there were documentation that showed the explicit steps to create the keystore (and trustore, from the previous point), that would be very helpful. You could go even further and pre-create the keystore and trustore, along with instructions for how to configure clients to use them, such as a Java client, of the Kafka Tool GUI (http://www.kafkatool.com/).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work at Kaazing and we are exploring a partnership with Aiven. We have a hosted platform that streams data from Kafka brokers to browser and mobile apps. We are looking at how easy it is stream from hosted Kafka solutions like Aiven, rather than prospects having to install and run their own Kafka broker clusters.
It all just works
What do you like best about the product?
The Kafka service have been great for our company. We switched from Heroku's offering. It was easy to setup and configure. We are using it for Postgres instances as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything has worked great, no dislikes yet for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Database hosting and kafka hosted instances
Seamless Aiven Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Support. Top Notch.
Ease to spin up new services.
Ease to spin up new services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features like setting the retention of topic in milliseconds/seconds
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do not need to worry about managing the cluster!
Straightforward to use and great support
What do you like best about the product?
Having had various questions on PostgreSQL in general and with setting up different services on aiven, I have found that the support team has been great at responding and providing very relevant and useful information. Aiven handles backups and provides many other functionalities that are useful for db management as well, which is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
It wasn't clear sometimes what functionalities were available through the API, such as forking a service. This option is available in the UI and also the API, but I found this out on the aiven chat. It would be great to document all these fully in the api docs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosting a PostgreSQL db - having finished setting everything up yet but a great experience so far
aiven experience
What do you like best about the product?
Your process to get working is very easy for us , and it matches the way we want to get things work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Your footprint, our whole team is in Bangalore. Having someone there will be whole lot easier to have timely conversation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need managed kafka :)
Very good product
What do you like best about the product?
Very detailed ticket resolution about how problems have been solved
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of night mode in the UI, currently in a dark room it is blinding
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Removing the need to manage our own postgres instances
Great DBaaS
What do you like best about the product?
- Fully managed: saves us huge amount of time in maintenance
- Fair pricing
- Attentive support
- Simplicity of usage
- New versions support, features, regions support (both in Amazon & GCP)
- Fair pricing
- Attentive support
- Simplicity of usage
- New versions support, features, regions support (both in Amazon & GCP)
What do you dislike about the product?
- Any export / integrations of logs outside of Aiven are quite hard to use / limited / introduce difficulties troubleshooting
- It would be lovely to have better granularity in the history and zooming-in/-out for the metrics graphs of the different services
- It would be great to have a failover/backups feature cross-regions
- It would be lovely to have better granularity in the history and zooming-in/-out for the metrics graphs of the different services
- It would be great to have a failover/backups feature cross-regions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Relational Database for storing data.
Management / reliability / scalability / monitoring / backups and restores / plv8 support
Management / reliability / scalability / monitoring / backups and restores / plv8 support
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great DBaaS option out there, nice maintenance and versions upgrades support, internal DB features, and extremely attentive, helpful and professional support team
PostgreSQL newbie analyst
What do you like best about the product?
Clean interface, minimalist design, easy to navigate
What do you dislike about the product?
No (obvious) query interface or easy way to see schema (that I could find).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
chosen because it works with AWS kinesis firehose and many other services (not my decision or expertise)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a PostgreSQL GUI/IDE in mind ahead of time for your data analysts.
As comfortable as I hoped
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is great. I like how easy it is to perform fork and restore.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PostgreSQL storage as a service... Having the functionality without needing to maintain the infrastructure.
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