--- description: Review of Aiven for PostgreSQL Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Aiven for PostgreSQL | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) > [Aiven for PostgreSQL](/software/108015/aiven-postgresql) # Aiven for PostgreSQL Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/108015/aiven-postgresql Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/108015/aiven-postgresql?page=2) > Aiven PostgreSQL is a database-as-a-service platform that helps businesses in retail, IoT and energy sectors integrate into existing workflow and automate daily tasks including in-place data upgrades, publish/unpublish replicas and more. The centralized platform lets administrators manage data operations such as forking, pooling and restoration using PostGIS and TimescaleDB extensions. Aiven PostgreSQL provides Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, which lets businesses manage Aiven managed service from within Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure platforms. Users can utilize read-only replicas to streamline operations across master nodes and eliminate latency issues with remote data access. It facilitates integration with several third-party logs, metrics, authentication and dataflow applications such as Prometheus, Datadog, Kafka MirrorMaker, Jolokia, Google OAuth SSO and more. The product is available on hourly and monthly pricing models and support is extended via documentation, live chat and other online measures. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 71 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 71 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Aiven - **Location**: Helsinki, Finland - **Founded**: 2016 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$19.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Services are billed hourly and invoiced monthly. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English, French - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Authentication - Automatic Backup - Backup and Recovery - Data Dictionary Management - Data Migration - Data Replication - Data Storage Management - Mobile Access - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Performance Analysis - Relational Database Management - SSL Security - Secure Data Storage ## Integrations (3 total) - Datadog - Prometheus - Terraform ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I like how Aiven handles changes to the deployed environment. The support team at Aiven answers questions clearly and are knowledgable. ----- ### "Aiven is the perfect, no-lock-in DB solution" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *1 April 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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. > > **Cons**: A 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. ----- ### "Bradley uses Aiven" — 4.0/5 > **Bradley** | *24 February 2021* | Sports | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: Console is easy to navigate. I didn't need a single tutorial to figure out what was where. > > **Cons**: Monitoring, Performance measuring, and optimization tools are pretty non-existent > > It's okay, it doesn't fail which is great, but lacking in tools. ----- ### "Aiven is very efficent for me, because is very easy use to" — 5.0/5 > **Mario** | *25 October 2017* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: graph 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 > > **Cons**: can'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 > > the serves restores in atumatic in downtime the backup automatic facility to see the performance ----- ### "Overall good, customer support is good, however pricing is not great compared to AWS, logs not good." — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *13 October 2017* | Higher Education > > **Pros**: Ease of use, being able to upgrade, downgrade hardware as needed, great customer support, overall decent interface. > > **Cons**: Hardware versus price is not great, especially compared to AWS, not great logging, seems difficult to customize, no auto scaling. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/108015/aiven-postgresql?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/108015/aiven-postgresql) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data