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Great capacity of work very reliable and safe.
What do you like best about the product?
The control panel helps a lot with the basic concepts settings. The database service based on the cloud is really reliable, I also like that it makes the way of working easier. The technical support area is also efficient and can really solve some problems quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some functions are limited, for example the records can not be searched or filtered easily, it would be very useful to search or filter through the different servers. On the other hand the summary of metrics is a list of graphics and you can not choose what I want to see.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was a great solution for the storage of our operational database, the reliability and support offered by this software is very good, this allows us to make the transactions more and more focused on the automated real-time functionality, without this tool it would be something impossible to do.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is very easy to use and very safe, it must be said that some security settings, for example, from the database, you have to dedicate a considerable amount of time, but all starts are difficult, after having done all this configuration everything will be much faster.
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Gets the hassle of maintaining out of the loop
What do you like best about the product?
I have managed kafka before and aiven gets the hassle out of rebalancing and stuff out of the loop
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no support for signalfx which I don't like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a bit complex :)
Great performance, features and service.
What do you like best about the product?
I moved to Aiven from RDS as I needed the performance improvements in pg10, and RDS was talking a very long time to make this release available. I've been very happy with Aiven since, my bill is less that it was with RDS, the performance is far better, and I can actually talk to people when I need support. I recommend Aiven to everyone.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not alot, there is quite a fee jump from the entry to mid tier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We built a large app with fairly complicated row level security rules. These started to cause major performance problems in real world use. We knew pg10 had optimized this area, so we needed to find a managed DB solution that would let us run recent releases. That's what initially drew us here.
simple and user friendly,
What do you like best about the product?
- kafka part , and upgrade of kafka is simple and fast
- High quality of service
- Really reactive support
- High quality of service
- Really reactive support
What do you dislike about the product?
- more collaboration with our IT team
- prices ?
- prices ?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- kafka as a service is always better than the legacy kafka cluster with VM, less administration, high availability
- Time to market
- Better scaling according to the business needs
- Time to market
- Better scaling according to the business needs
Easy and powerful way to run Kafka as a service
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup and integration with Avro, which we use for building schemas for data serializer. Also very easy to get it initially up and running, view, frontend interfaces, very clear and logical.
What do you dislike about the product?
The validation for the Avro schema in Avro interface is frontend-level. Perhaps it would be a nice idea to prevent sending an invalid Avro schema when calling Aiven API directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Both using Kafka as a service centralize our Avro schema registry so applications can fetch it remotely in runtime-level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give a try ;)
Surprising performance, great featureset
What do you like best about the product?
Super simple usage of VPC peering, PGBouncer coupled with amazing performance for a cloud based database. Really encouraged so far.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI on the pools page could be a little crisper, and more configuration options about the db pools would be great - e.g. per user connection limits rather than just per-db
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to fix reliability issues with automatic db management tools, the first clear benefit has been performance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The features they don't shout about are really excellent - things like being able to run replicas in different clouds or regions is unique.
Data Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Monitoring, logging and tooling are way better than GCP
What do you dislike about the product?
None actually, maybe a lack of option for mySQL version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better monitoring and logging just make debugging whole lot easier!
My Experience using Aiven for cloud based microservices
What do you like best about the product?
it's super easy to access info for connecting to the database from the CLI, through code or a GUI. The service itself is easy to automate through Terraform or the web.
What do you dislike about the product?
The logs are not very useful since you can't easily search or filter. it would be nice to be able to search/filter through your different services. The metrics overview is just a large list of charts and does not let you choose what you want to see.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
centralizing database access and management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check out their Terraform integration - makes it really easy to set up!
Used Aiven Kafka for Staging and Production
What do you like best about the product?
Simple set up and monitoring. Can easily understand what is happening in Kafka because we have easy visibility into the different topics.
What do you dislike about the product?
Until now, everything works pretty well tbh.
It's a little expensive, but that's about it.
It's a little expensive, but that's about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are doing credit scoring and use Aiven kafka as a message bus for our scoring system. We built a full suite of streaming services around it.
Easy, reliable and competitively priced Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
The technical reliability with Aiven is fantastic. In the rare case that something does go wrong, one can count on Aiven putting their best foot forward in support situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Aiven is still an up and coming provider and there are rough edges being solved over time. For more total or exotic use cases that could present a problem with lead time, as you might have to negotiate the needed features being implemented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All operational (transactional, real-time and cache) database storage is hosted on Aiven. The reliability and ecosystem support of Aiven Kafka specifically has allowed us to transition more and more towards automated real time functionality where before it was technically infeasible.
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