All Aiven for PostgreSQL Reviews
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Charlie
Verified reviewer
Hospital & Health Care, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
The best managed PostgreSQL solution I've tried
I have always wanted a solution like Aiven; easy-to-use like Heroku, but with far more powerful features and far more affordable.
PROS- latest version of PostgreSQL available nearly immediately - great performance - easy-to-understand UI with enough power to do everything I needed - straightforward solution, not excessively complicated - ability to deploy into cloud provider of my choice, no lock-in - clear pricing - excellent support
CONS- not possible to leverage free credits from cloud providers
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2019
An excellent, full-featured database provider
The general ease of operation for: - Spinning up new databases - Scaling up - Scaling down - Migrating to a different region - Restoring backups Is really great. It's amazing how many features you get out of the box. The plans with redundancy are also cool because you get full access to the slave as a read-only replica, this means you can run heavy select queries without putting load on the main database. There is a very significant "it just works" factor to it, which is not something I would imagine myself saying about a database provider so easily.
CONSThey are not the cheapest Monitoring/alerting options were a bit lackluste, but this has improved recently.
Mikko
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed August 2018
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CONSNot being able to copy from one gb to another easily or automatically
Vendor Response
Hi Mikko, Thank you for your comment. You can find more information about copying entire databases from one service another from: https://help.aiven.io/postgresql/getting-started/migrating-your-existing-postgresql-database-to-aiven Hope this helps!
Replied February 2019
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
Good sofware for Database management
A good program that saves a lot of time.
PROSGood software for automating database operations, has good features to facilitate connections, completely secures data, and offers a free trial.
CONSSometimes problems occur in copying operations, this platform needs to be updated to increase work efficiency.
Mathias
Verified reviewer
Oil & Energy, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Focus on the productive stuff
Extremely esay to use and get started with in seconds. Very helpful support if so be needed and a very reliable service.
PROSIt's incredibly easy to spin up a postgreSQL instance and start being productive. Everything from creating a secure password to SSL-certificates are handled automatically. Point in time backups make you confident to use and test without gambling hours of work and for the serious tests and development environments - spin up a replica by forking the database with the press of a button!
CONSIt is a bit expensive if you need more disk space, which isn't unusual when dealing with data and databases.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2017
It's great. Everything just works; setup was effortless; customer service is responsive and helpful.
The best thing are the no-downtime migrations and upgrades. The setup was quick and easy and since then no maintenance has been required. Customer service is great and pro-active. The dashboard works well.
CONSAs far as I can tell there's no way to set a separate billing email. It would be nice to also see in the dashboard what's taking up most memory and disk space and to be able to set up alerts, such as if there are queries that take too long to execute.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review! Great to hear you have had a good experience so far. Regarding to your comment on setting a separate billing email, field for that has now been made available.
Replied February 2019
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2019
Great product, really happy about it
- the support provided during the sales cycle - the exploration of possible options - the platform is clear and user friendly - great product, it took us a few hours to migrate from our database on premise to that on Aiven.
CONS- the fact that we can only have Timescale Open Source features run on Aiven, and not the advanced features.
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
Database as a service, H.A.
Darko
Verified reviewer
Gambling & Casinos, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Aiven for PostgreSQL by Darko Britvec
I like Aiven and I think I would keep using it for both business and personal projects.
PROSI like how easy it is to create and manage Postgres instance using Aiven + it's not that expensive in comparison to other providers.
CONSI would like to have more insights in query performance.
Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL
Expenses
Márton
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
So simple and powerfull
I am very satisfied with Aiven so far.It eliminated the need for in-house solutions for backup, scaling and upgrading a PostgreSQL server.
PROSI have only used the PostgreSQL service so far and I really like how easy it is to start, fork en upgrade the service. A great feature, and a must for us, is that you can choose on which cloud provider and location the service should be deployed. We have been hosting our own PostgreSQL server for years and had to manage upgrades, backup and scaling on our own. And it feels great to finally leave that behind us and start using PostgreSQL as a service. The support is great to. I have been in contact with the support using the chat feature and have been helped every time.
CONSThe official API client was a bit hard to understand at first.
James
Verified reviewer
Computer Software
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
Great service
The implementation of our business!
PROSCan't fault Aiven at all, great service, the exact services we require (postgres and elasticsearch) and always more than willing to help
CONSWhile it is a managed service you do need to have at least a minimum of knowledge to setup and run the services on offer.
Daniel
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2019
Remote replicas to the rescue!
We tested and we loved it, the remote replica is a service that takes weight out of our shoulders in a brilliant and simple way.
PROSThe interface is easy to use and intuitive. The remote replica option is saving the company time. In the past, it was hard to manage and configure the remote replicas using tools like Bucardo and PostgreSQL in RDS, which does not support binary replication (at least it didn't back then). The replicas between the remote databases happen almost instantly. Great support for extensions.
CONSThe chat support takes a long time to answer the questions but when they do, the answers are to the point and helpful.
Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL
Remote replicas.
Bruno
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2019
Aiven PostgreSQL review
Performance is much higher than Amazon RDS
CONSFailover can take quite a long time.
Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL
IOPS
Mario
Telecommunications, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2017
Aiven is very efficent for me, because is very easy use to
the serves restores in atumatic in downtime the backup automatic facility to see the performance
PROSgraph of metrics query statics easy admin of users the autimatic backups and restores the upgrades of service plans is a very easy and autimatic the agents of service desk are very efficent and friendly
CONScan't watch logs of befores days aiven dont have a panel to execute querys, i could execute querys without any administrator of postgresql from your platform cant admin sessions, i could close to sessions without pgadmin
Vendor Response
Hello Mario, Thank you for your review. We¿re glad to hear you have enjoyed the ease of use of our managed PostgreSQL. First, I wanted to let you know that it is now possible to close connections directly from console. Second, our logs view has been improved; for longer logs retention, we support integration to Elasticsearch, where you can keep logs for unlimited (limited by amount of disk space) time. Thanks again!
Replied February 2019
Johannes
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2017
Excellent, well-designed product. Hard to imagine an easier solution to this problem.
The best feature is how easy it is to get up and running. Once you've set up an instance, you literally (in our case) just had to copy-and-paste the database URL into our site's (Django-based) configuration. The fact that scaling the instances is so easy also makes it quite comfortable to just start with a small one and then upgrade it as your needs increase.
CONSWe had one or two cases where the instance was unreachable, even though the dashboard reported that it was up. Considering the price, this is pretty good for over a year of service with no redundancy, though. Also, automatically upgrading the PostgreSQL version is obviously a double-edged sword. An opt-out feature might be helpful. We once started getting some errors when the postgres-server version changed.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Aiven is the perfect, no-lock-in DB solution
Aiven makes it trival to move databases between cloud providers. The stickiest thing about any hyperscaler (AWS/Google/Azure) is your data - it's a PAIN to move. Aiven makes changing your cloud provider a literal point and shoot operation, something that could take weeks of planning trying to from RDS to Cloud SQL or the like.
CONSA little more customization in the pricing would be nice (and the ability to run within a VPC instead of having to peer VPCs), but honestly there's very little I don't like about Aiven.
Nathan
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2020
Painless PostreSql
Overall all of my interactions with the Aiven team have been positive, even if we didn't arrive at a solution the support team is knowledgeable and truly tries to help. As for the system itself it has been pretty rock solid so far. Keep up the good work.
PROSThe confidence I have that the DB will be running, that if there is an update or upgrade I can (from the DB side) simply click a button to deploy it.
CONSWe are currently transitioning most of our app to k8s and the systems just don't seem to work super well with Digital Ocean's current solution. (We don't get VPC's and as such have issue with whitelisting correct IP's as they tend to change)
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
I was not part of this process
Paul
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2019
Best managed DB so far
After we started using Aiven, DB's have been one thing that we don't have to worry about.
PROSIt was just super simple to start using it. The possibility to deploy the service to the same locations where we host our capacity was crucial for us. Also as a nice plus, aiven has made their own Terraform provider which we also use to manage our capacity.
CONSOption to create "Service Accounts" would be really nice. Currently all the API tokens are tied to actual user accounts and that might cause problems at some point. But other than that there's not much not to like :)
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
Pricing and the fact that we can have same solution across all cloud service providers we use.
Justin
Automotive, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
Works for us
We use this product to back our application for all environments. It is a huge improvement over our previous provider who was less expensive, but not nearly as stable or user friendly.
PROSThe ease of deployment and the dashboard are super important to us and these guys seem to have put a lot of thought into building a toolset that works for devs.
CONSI don't have anything useful to add here.
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
Price and ease of use.
Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL
We were experiencing slow downs and instability on the previous postgres service.
Efrain
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2017
Using Aiven has been a great experience because it has permitted us to deploy faster database server
Deploying database servers it is now really fast for us.
PROSI like that is possible to deploy PostgreSQL within seconds. I also really like that is possible to upgrade to a minor or major version of PostgreSQL without a noticeable downtime. I like the offering of HA services. I like the great customer support.
CONSThat it is not possible to have customizable PostgreSQL logs. On our dedicated servers we customize this logs to show us querys that last longer than 5 seconds, currently this is not possible with Aiven.
Bradley
Sports, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed February 2021
Bradley uses Aiven
It's okay, it doesn't fail which is great, but lacking in tools.
PROSConsole is easy to navigate. I didn't need a single tutorial to figure out what was where.
CONSMonitoring, Performance measuring, and optimization tools are pretty non-existent
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
I didn't choose, inherited from a prior decision.
Sugandi
Entertainment, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2019
Overall is more far better than Google cloudsql
Good so far, you guys provide mysql as well?
PROSAvailability and live migration feature is awesome
CONSLast time (couple weeks) it still cannot zoom to specific range of time in metric dashboard or i am wrong remember
Alexandre
Automotive, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Great product
We are moving all our Postgres workload to aiven. We save lot of time managing and maintaining lots of PG instances.
PROSIt's efficient: no downtime during migration scale up/down And easy to use!
CONSMaybe an "in customer cloud" deployment for small business could be appreciable
Reason for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL
For reliability, and pricing
Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL
To hard to maintain reliably Time consuming Under license now
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2018
Works well, has cloud datacenters in many regions.
Don't have to host Linux servers for it myself.
PROSDatacenters in multiple regions, multiple PostgreSQL versions. General high level of availability. Support is helpful and pretty fast (located in my timezone.)
CONSNo real cons actually. Had a problem once (which was related to my PG driver etc), the customer support helped me resolve it fairly quickly.
Ev
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
My review
It works. It seems stable. We hope someones is handling all the version updates and patches for us, but we don't get a lot of visibility into that.
CONSIt's expensive and I'm not sure how much value Aiven is providing us. We consider just running Postgres on our own cloud almost every day.
Anonymous
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2017
Overall good, customer support is good, however pricing is not great compared to AWS, logs not good.
Ease of use, being able to upgrade, downgrade hardware as needed, great customer support, overall decent interface.
CONSHardware versus price is not great, especially compared to AWS, not great logging, seems difficult to customize, no auto scaling.