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Moderate
What do you like best about the product?
Not having to maintain or manage the Kafka cluster and all components around it like Zookeeper.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not what I have found yet. Might come up later when I start using it more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What Aiven does for us is to take care of the maintenance of Kafka and the products around it.
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Friendly and Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
UI was very simple and friendly. Maintaining it using Terraform code was a great experience. I liked the feature of Aiven S3 connector.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially the UI was a bit complex but then I got it and it made my life easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven S3 connector solved the problem for me to dump the data into the S3 datalake. It was easy to use and integrate.
Setting up was extremely easy
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up was extremely easy.
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What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its all managed by aiven and needs no attention from us
You can't go wrong picking Aiven for Postgres
What do you like best about the product?
I've found Aiven's support for Postgres to be much more full-featured than other platforms provide. The uptime and operational stability is (IMO) best in class for postgres, much better than you get from e.g. RDS. I love that it comes stock with a much wider set of postgres extensions than you get from other cloud providers - being able to opt in to using Timescale or PostGIS when you need to is key.
What do you dislike about the product?
My minor complaint is that I'm a Pulumi IAC user and I'd like for Aiven to have better support for Pulumi, so that we could spin up infrastructure from within our IAC tool of choice. Ultimately though this isn't the most major deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The stability and uptime guarantees that Aiven provides allows our team to not have to hire a postgres DBA to use our database. It's really beneficial because we put some serious load on postgres and it's great that we still don't have to hire someone just for this need.
Awesome integration into Terraform and DigitalOcean
What do you like best about the product?
It sits right in the middle between hosting everything on your own on one hand and booking confluent cloud on the other hand. We do not need to take care of the machines, zookeeper, ... and still get Kafka up and running wiht just "terraform apply"!
What do you dislike about the product?
We have a small integration setup and would like to have a small (as in cheap) one machine setup to just play with it. We plan on using review Apps in GitLab and spinning up a 200 $ / month setup everytime will soon get pricy ;-)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We could run Kafka anywhere, but we are a small company and even though our developers have fun playing with operations, we need to tightly focus the small amount of time we have. And having someone else taking care of Kafka and everything surrounding it helps us keeping this focus.
Great product
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven takes away all the pain from database management and lets you focus on core business.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I would like to make more fine-grained config changes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Removed the need for a DBA at a small scale
SaaS as it should be
What do you like best about the product?
We have already used the service prior to professional use during a group work assignment at the university. The ease of setup and getting things started is what drew me in the first place to Aiven. The hassle-free setup of a database instance, the pre-configured backups as well as the transparent pricing are that make the service a valuable companion.
What do you dislike about the product?
As for now, works like charm. Nothing to complain about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are hosting a JMIX-based application on-premise where we are using the Aiven PostgreSQL as a data backend. Not having to worry about the availability of the DB instance as well as the continuous backups is business critical.
Excellent service and knowledge of the subject
What do you like best about the product?
Can get a response quite fast within an hour
What do you dislike about the product?
Not sure yet what is recovery going to be like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IoT Timeseries DB using TimescaleDB Extensions
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nothing in particular. The service is solid.
Great interface, easy to learn
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is very intuitive, easy to learn, I think that it took less than 10 minutes to find my Kafka messages. Create a schema is easy to, I strongly recommend this application.
What do you dislike about the product?
I created a free account by mistake with my professional e-mail, I needed to talk to the support team to have my account deleted to be possible to access my account that was previously created by my company, which uses a different authentication method (Okta).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provided me with an easy way to access my Kafka messages and schemas. The servers are easy to find, filter, etc. The system is simple and very easy to learn.
Best PostgreSQL hosting in the market
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface, one click setup , backup, fast , secure and saclable
What do you dislike about the product?
1.Better filtering for logs
2.Support for single user per db
2.Support for single user per db
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a small team, and Aiven lets us focus more on application code than pulling hairs to manage the database. It's cheaper and reliable
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