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Aiven Platform: Managed Database and Data Streaming Services

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    Craig H.

Simple, secure, reliable

  • April 27, 2018
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What do you like best about the product?
Of all the cloud-based database services we've tried, Aiven has been hands-down the easiest to work with and integrate with our distributed systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like to have some sort of database performance/uptime monitoring tools that are configurable to send out alerts to specific roles/users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we're a small start-up with limited funding and staff resources. We're in the student loan industry and quickly scaling up as we gain lending licenses in every state. It has been a relief that we've been able to focus on application development without a dedicated database administrator. Every once in awhile, we "check up on" the database -- yep, it's still there -- and we go back to our code.

    Computer Software

Very easy to set up

  • April 02, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy to set up, and the control panel helps you a lot on setting up the basics.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy and quick to set up. Yet you have to invest some time to set up some proper database security (roles and accounts/permissions)

    Janne K.

CTO, System Architect

  • January 22, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Designing architecture with emphasis on scalability and long term sustainability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hosting my own infrastructure such as databases and message brokers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosted database, hosted messaging.

    Information Technology and Services

reliable service

  • January 18, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Good service, prompt answers to support issues
What do you dislike about the product?
limited product configuration (e.g. it was not possible to use redis because of protocol mismatch)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analysis and prediction for payTV business

    Information Technology and Services

Good

  • January 08, 2018
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
- Place in time restores
- Database forks
- Read-only replicas
What do you dislike about the product?
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...
What problems is the product 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.

    Marketing and Advertising

Solid postgres, slightly lacking redis

  • December 11, 2017
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What do you like best about the product?
Nice simple pricing model

Enough metrics for the important stuff without cluttering up the place
What do you dislike about the product?
Redis has no easy dump restore function for migrating from external source

Backups are not very accessible, be nice to be able to download arbitrary backups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Hosting PSQL and Redis in GCP

    Andrew M.

Aiven Kafka review

  • December 04, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like that I don't have to deal with kafka maintenance.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that there were a way to same / view all messages moving through kafka so that I could debug manually when necessary. My stream is low volume.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use kafka as our message broker in a distributed system setup with Lagom.

    Information Technology and Services

Good service

  • November 16, 2017
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup, clean interface. The service works as expected, that's exactly what I would expect.
What do you dislike about the product?
I currently don't see anything negative about Aiven.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable, high availability, support our load, greatly simplified the way we manage our databases.

    Leandro C.

Fast support. All my questions were answered very promptly.

  • November 14, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The "self-service" approach. We can upgrade and downgrade as we like.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact we cannot have a free development environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We don't want to hire a Kafka cluster manager, it's not our core business. Having this as a service is much easier,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a professional support, Aiven is ahead of others.

    Computer Software

Aiven Review

  • November 13, 2017
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The thing I like best about aiven is that It's managed by someone else
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I dislike the most about aiven is the lack of Kafka connect
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Event driven microservices

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