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PostgreSQL vs. AlloyDB Omni: understanding the differences

Apr 25, 2025 By Celeste Horgan In Aiven
With the introduction of Aiven for AlloyDB Omni, many of our customers have wondered what the difference is between AlloyDB Omni and its architectural source project, open source PostgreSQL. AlloyDB Omni is more than just a re-implementation of PostgreSQL, and understanding how it is similar – and how it differs – from open source PostgreSQL is a valuable exercise.
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The Hitchhiker's guide to Diskless Kafka

Apr 23, 2025 By Filip Yonov In Aiven
KIP-1150 isn’t a distant, strange planet; it just reroutes Kafka’s entire replication pathway from broker disks to cloud object storage. Flip one topic flag and your data bypasses local drives altogether: Because Diskless is built into Kafka (no client changes, no forks), we had to solve a 4D puzzle: How do you make a Diskless topic behave exactly like a Kafka one—inside the same cluster—without rewriting Kafka?
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Aiven for PostgreSQL Performance Benchmarks Across Cloud Offerings

Apr 11, 2025 By Dirk Krautschick In Aiven
Aiven offers a seamless multi-service cross-cloud experience. When optimizing your infrastructure performance, understanding how services performance can change across clouds can help differentiate your business. This blog details the benchmarking of how PostgreSQL performs on each of our cloud offerings: AWS, GCP, OCI, and Azure.
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Maximizing Innovation: Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Apr 2, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
In today’s world, cloud technologies are essential for keeping up with the accelerating pace of business and changing market dynamics. However, innovation cannot be funded by a blank check; cloud cost optimization is essential to finding efficiency while innovating. Hear from Aiven about the principles of optimizing managed databases and streaming services and techniques for bringing cloud costs down while using third-party vendors.
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