What is AIVEN?

What is AIVEN?

Aiven is a cloud-based platform that provides a managed open-source data infrastructure services. It gives businesses and also a developer privilege to manage and deploy a various open-source data tools, databases, and also event streaming services with ease also it is designed to become scalable, secure and reliable.

Services:

Databases : Aiven supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis as an open-source database technologies. This database technologies will make developers life more easy because they can use what ever their want database.
Event Streaming : Aiven supports Apache Kafka as their open-source event streaming technologies. Apache kafka used to build real-time streaming data pipelines and applications that adapt to the data streams.

Automation : Aiven can automate things such as cloud databases and data infractructure because of this developers will be more productive in terms of deployment. Aiven automation also simplify the scaling, maintenance of these services so that it will be secure and ensure high availability and perform without manual intervention.
Security : Aiven provides a secure services with features such as Dedicated virtual machines, Encryption for Data in transit and at rest, Complete network security, Automated security updates and Annual security testing. And Aiven is also compliance with the industry security standards such as ISO 27000-series, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliant.

Aiven supports a wide variety of open source databases and data platforms meanwhile, Amazon RDS focuses on using the traditional relational databases.
Aiven is much easier to use because of user friendly interface meanwhile, Amazon RDS is much more manageable in terms of AWS environment
In terms of pricing Aiven is much higher than Amazon RDS due to multi-cloud support

Ease of Use : Aiven provides a simple, intuitive user interface that allows users to easily provision and configure their data infrastructure services. Additionally, Aiven’s services are designed to be highly scalable and flexible, making it easy for businesses to adapt to changing requirements and workloads.
Cross-Cloud Support : Aiven provides a cross-cloud support meaning Aiven is a managed cloud service provider that offers a lot of open-source technologies such as databases, search engines, event streaming and many more.
Cost Efficiency : In terms of cost or pricing Aiven is much more expensive if you are an solo developer but in a company or business it will be really a cost efficient experience because it provides a ton of benefits that needed by a company.

Select the new service from the list of services on the Services page.
On the Overview page, select Service settings from the sidebar.
In the Advanced configuration section, make changes to the service configuration.

Log in to the Aiven Conso le, and go to your organization > project > Aiven for MySQL service.
On the Overview page of your service, click Quick connect.
In the Connect window, select a tool or language to connect to your service, follow the connection instructions, and click Done.

mysql --user avnadmin --password=ADMIN_PASSWORD --host mysql-sakila-dev-sandbox.f.aivencloud.com --port 12691 defaultdb

Sakila is a sample dataset that represents a DVD rental store. It provides a standard schema highlighting MySQL features.

Download the sakila database archive (tar or zip format) from the MySQL example databases page, and extract it to your desired location (for example /tmp/).
From the folder where you unpacked the archive, connect to your MySQL service, create a sakila database, and connect to it:
```
 CREATE DATABASE sakila;
 USE sakila;
```

Populate the database:

 source sakila-schema.sql;
 source sakila-data.sql;

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