Interview with Aiven
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In which areas do you expect PostgreSQL to grow most and how does your company contribute to and benefit from that growth?
The lightweightness, extensibility and flexibility of postgres turned out to be the right design decision. Aiven offers pure core PostgreSQL as a managed service and with as many extensions as possible. To keep this running it is important to contribute as much as possible in code fixes and also community work and examples on how to get the most benefit from them.
We also have a team dedicated to building and maintaining tools that help people use AI to work with their data. We have many tools and code editors extensions that make it easy to optimize SQL Queries and Index Strategies and better write and understand SQL.
What is your PostgreSQL centered product?
Aiven for PostgreSQL is a managed PostgreSQL single or multi node offering automatic updates and upgrades with 99.99% uptime and 100% human support. That’s zero stress! You can spin up a database quickly on a cloud provider of your choice like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, and UpCloud. Once you select your plan, cloud provider and region, your service will start building. If you scale your workload to include multi-cloud redundancy or multi-region replication, you can go from a proof of concept to a production ready environment in a few clicks. Simply put, Aiven gives you the easiest way to spin up PostgreSQL services to fit your needs. On top of this we offer several integration capabilities with other Aiven managed and maintained open source data platform solutions like Kafka, ClickHouse or OpenSearch to provide the perfect toolset for creating the ideal data platform or data pipeline for any kind of use case or application.
What makes your company a great place to work?
We believe in open minds, open discussions, and open source. And we value and celebrate the diversity of our people. Aiven is somewhere you can be your best, true self. The work we do at Aiven is anything but straightforward, so we must be bold and innovative. For us, it’s not what you think , but how you think that matters.
We encourage everyone at Aiven to think sideways and take big leaps forward.
Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?
We try to provide as many extensions as possible to bring the best experience which is always a huge task for service providers in matters of support. Observing the actual hype the availability of vector databases is a very often requested technology for being a proper data platform for AI workloads. So beside having several databases with vector capabilities the extension pg_vector for PostgreSQL is at this time the most beneficial extension in our ecosystem.
What are your company’s goals for PGConf.EU 2026?
Being present at PGConf.EU and other postgres conferences is a huge opportunity to let people learn more about us and how easy it is for people to build with Aiven for PostgreSQL. It’s also great to also support the many people (including a few of my colleagues) speaking there and also supporting the community who organizes such great events.
