September 2021 Summaries

Aiven has announced the launch of its new managed service, Aiven for OpenSearch, which is built on the open-source project OpenSearch. This service offers a fully open-source upgrade path for existing Aiven for Elasticsearch 7.x customers and ensures compatibility with Elasticsearch v7. The transition from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch also upgrades Kibana to OpenSearch Dashboards. Users can upgrade their services using the normal upgrade service mechanism, ensuring that cost, performance, and usage experience remain unchanged. Aiven for OpenSearch includes OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards, and a variety of plugins, all well-maintained and supported open-source technology.

Aiven has released benchmark figures comparing the performance of PostgreSQL 13.4 on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure across four different plans. The benchmarks measured write performance metrics by scaling up nodes vertically while keeping the number of nodes constant. Results showed that overall, the performance/cost difference between cloud providers favored Google. Aiven recommends users to identify performance bottlenecks and tune their database configuration, workload or hardware settings for optimal results.

Aiven has launched a Kubernetes Operator to manage its services, including Aiven for PostgreSQL and Aiven for Apache Kafka. The Aiven Operator for Kubernetes offers access to the same operations as their public REST API while allowing users to manage their Aiven infrastructure using Kubernetes tooling. It also supports Aiven native resources like Aiven Projects and Aiven VPCs. This centralized access helps focus on database administration work, making it easier to build and deploy modern software applications quickly and efficiently. The Aiven Kubernetes Operator can be obtained from the project page in GitHub, where users can follow instructions to install and start using it.