Aiven vs TigerData
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Aiven and TigerData built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Aiven if…
Teams who want more than one open-source data service from one vendor and one bill — Postgres beside Kafka, ClickHouse or OpenSearch — with the availability tier chosen per service rather than fixed.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose TigerData if…
Time-series and analytics workloads that want to stay in Postgres — TimescaleDB's compression is the reason the storage line is affordable at volume.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Aiven: You want long recovery history on a cheap plan. Backup history is what the plan tiers buy here: two days on the entry paid plan against thirty at the top.
- TigerData: The advertised storage price assumes 5x compression, so a workload that does not compress that well pays materially more than the figure suggests.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Aiven alternatives · TigerData alternatives
15 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Aiven 0
TigerData 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Aiven | TigerData |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes — indefinite, but idle services are powered off | Yes — Free services are in beta, us-east-1 only, and go read-only at the storage limit. |
| Kind of free offer | Always free | Free tier |
| Credit card to start | No | No |
| Entry paid plan | $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud or region and no connection pooling. The first plan that behaves like a production service is Startup at $75 a month or $0.10 an hour, which is where the uptime SLA and multi-CPU sizing begin; Hobbyist sits between them at $12. | Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separately. Scale starts at $36/month. |
| Pricing model | Fixed plans quoted both monthly and hourly, with the plan setting CPU, RAM and storage together rather than metering them separately. Aiven describes the pricing as all-inclusive: backups, monitoring and support come with the plan instead of appearing as line items. Higher tiers buy node count and backup history — Business adds a standby node, Premium a second. | Compute and storage are billed separately and hourly rather than as one plan price — compute from $30 a month, storage at $0.177 per GB-month, with the headline storage figure resting on an assumed 5x compression ratio. |
| Execution | ||
| Managed connection pooling | Supported — not on the Free or Developer tiers | Supported — pgBouncer pooler added per service in Console, in session or transaction mode. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Regions | 153 regions across six clouds — AWS 25, Google 42, Azure 39, OVH 22, UpCloud 16, DigitalOcean 9 — counted from Aiven's own reference list, which publishes the regions and no total. No magnitude is recorded, because Aiven states on that same page that the list differs per project and that not all service types are available in every cloud and region: the number is the platform's reach, not PostgreSQL's, and a bar drawn from it would be compared against providers whose counts are engine-specific. | 13 AWS regions (US, Canada, Sao Paulo, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) and 4 Azure regions for Tiger Cloud services |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% from Startup ($75/month), the entry paid plan, upward. | Enterprise SLAs, with no percentage published on the pricing page. |
| Data | ||
| Engine | PostgreSQL, alongside MySQL, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Valkey, Kafka, Flink and Grafana. Aiven runs the upstream projects rather than a compatible reimplementation, which is why its own docs point at postgresql.org for per-release detail. | PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, aimed at time-series, real-time analytics and events. A self-managed edition exists for on-prem and private cloud. |
| Connection limit | Set per plan, not by a formula: 100 on the entry paid plan (Startup-4), rising to 200, 400, 800 and 1000 as the plan grows, with 25 on Hobbyist, 20 on Free and 15 on Developer. Aiven states plainly that it does not apply a per-GiB formula, and that some of the allowance is used by Aiven itself to manage the service. | max_connections settable 25-500 on services from 0.5 CPU / 2 GiB to 4 CPU / 16 GiB, and 25-2000 from 8 CPU / 32 GiB up; fixed at 25 on shared CPU |
| Database branching | Limited — a full copy from the latest backup, not copy-on-write | Supported — Service forks, created at current state, last snapshot, or a timestamp in the plan recovery window. |
| Point-in-time recovery | Bounded by the plan's backup history, so 2 days on the entry paid plan and 30 at the top. Granularity is fine within that: full backups daily with write-ahead logs copied every 5 minutes or per new file, whichever comes first. | 3 days on Performance, with cross-region backups available for disaster recovery on higher tiers. |
| Read replicas | Supported | Supported |
| Backup retention | By plan: none on Hobbyist, 2 days on Startup, 14 on Business, 30 on Premium. The magnitude is Startup's 2 days, the entry paid plan. Aiven's high-availability page states 2 days for Hobbyist where the backups page states none — the backups page is the more specific of the two and is what is recorded here. | One full backup weekly plus daily incrementals, kept for the plan recovery period; Enterprise can set 14-180 days; cross-region copies always kept 14 days |
| Support | ||
| Support on entry paid plan | Documentation on the free tier; email with best-effort same or next business day responses on paid plans. Faster responses and phone support are three further tiers, charged separately. | Basic support, 9-5 ET, on the entry plan. Enterprise adds production support at 24x7. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | We also provide ISAE 3000/SOC2 Type II reports. | SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; the annual report is available to customers on the Scale or Enterprise pricing plans by support ticket. |
| HIPAA | Our services are ISO 27000-series, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliant. | The Tiger Cloud Enterprise plan is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. Enterprise plan only. |
| Encryption at rest | All data is fully encrypted end-to-end at rest and in transit. | Both active databases and backups are encrypted at rest (and in transit) with the industry-standard AES-256 algorithm. |
| Private networking / VPC | Deploy services directly into your own cloud account for data residency and VPC peering. | VPC peering leaves no public internet access to the service; AWS PrivateLink private endpoints route traffic over the AWS network. |
Where they differ.
Kind of free offer
- Aiven
- Always free
- TigerData
- Free tier
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Free plans — Aiven docs ↗
“You don't need a credit card to create a free service and you can use them indefinitely free of charge. Free services do not have any time limitations. However, Aiven reserves the right to: Power off free services with no initial usage within the first few hours after the service is running. [...] Power off free services with no continuative activity on the service.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs · Report a correction
- About Tiger Cloud services | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“You create free and standard services in Tiger Console. A standard service comes with the full range of features according to your pricing plan. A free service comes at zero cost and gives you limited features and resources. [...] Free services come with pre-configured CPU and memory, are hosted in us-east-1 region, and offer limited resources with a basic feature scope.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Entry paid plan
- Aiven
- $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud or region and no connection pooling. The first plan that behaves like a production service is Startup at $75 a month or $0.10 an hour, which is where the uptime SLA and multi-CPU sizing begin; Hobbyist sits between them at $12.
- TigerData
- Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separately. Scale starts at $36/month.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Plans & Pricing — Aiven ↗
“Free $0 / month [...] 1 GB total storage Cannot select a specific cloud or region No integrations or connection pooling Developer $5 / month [...] 8 GB total storage Cannot select a specific cloud or region No integrations or connection pooling Hobbyist starting from $12 / month $0.02 / hour [...] Startup starting from $75 / month $0.10 / hour [...] 99.99% uptime SLA Business starting from $180 / month $0.25 / hour”
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- Pricing — TigerData ↗
“Performance Compute starts at $ 30 / month Storage priced at $0.177 / GB-month [...] Scale Most popular Compute starts at $ 36 / month”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Pricing model
- Aiven
- Fixed plans quoted both monthly and hourly, with the plan setting CPU, RAM and storage together rather than metering them separately. Aiven describes the pricing as all-inclusive: backups, monitoring and support come with the plan instead of appearing as line items. Higher tiers buy node count and backup history — Business adds a standby node, Premium a second.
- TigerData
- Compute and storage are billed separately and hourly rather than as one plan price — compute from $30 a month, storage at $0.177 per GB-month, with the headline storage figure resting on an assumed 5x compression ratio.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Plans & Pricing — Aiven ↗
“Aiven's pricing is all-inclusive and transparent, providing you with the confidence [...] Startup starting from $75 / month $0.10 / hour [...] Business starting from $180 / month $0.25 / hour [...] Everything in Startup, plus high availability Premium starting from $270 / month $0.37 / hour”
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- Pricing — TigerData ↗
“Pay as you go hourly Compute starts at $30/month Storage priced at $0.177/GB-month [...] Effective storage price is based on 5x compression (average customer savings).”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Regions
- Aiven
- 153 regions across six clouds — AWS 25, Google 42, Azure 39, OVH 22, UpCloud 16, DigitalOcean 9 — counted from Aiven's own reference list, which publishes the regions and no total. No magnitude is recorded, because Aiven states on that same page that the list differs per project and that not all service types are available in every cloud and region: the number is the platform's reach, not PostgreSQL's, and a bar drawn from it would be compared against providers whose counts are engine-specific.
- TigerData
- 13 AWS regions (US, Canada, Sao Paulo, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) and 4 Azure regions for Tiger Cloud services
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Available cloud regions — Aiven docs ↗
“This is a reference list of the default cloud regions available per provider on the Aiven Platform. note The list of available clouds can differ per project. Not all Aiven service types are available for all cloud providers and regions.”
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- Supported regions | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“Tiger Cloud services run in the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions: [...] Tiger Cloud services run in the following Microsoft Azure regions:”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Uptime SLA
- Aiven
- 99.99% from Startup ($75/month), the entry paid plan, upward.
- TigerData
- Enterprise SLAs, with no percentage published on the pricing page.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven Pricing ↗
“startup starting from $75 / month $0.10 / hour get building view 7 plans 1 dedicated VM 2-32 CPU per VM 4-192 GB RAM per VM 80 GB-11 TB total storage 99.99% uptime SLA”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Tiger Data Pricing ↗
“mission-critical reliability and monitoring cross-region backups for disaster recovery enterprise SLAs production support (24x7, 1 hour response time for sev 1 issues)”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Engine
- Aiven
- PostgreSQL, alongside MySQL, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Valkey, Kafka, Flink and Grafana. Aiven runs the upstream projects rather than a compatible reimplementation, which is why its own docs point at postgresql.org for per-release detail.
- TigerData
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, aimed at time-series, real-time analytics and events. A self-managed edition exists for on-prem and private cloud.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven for PostgreSQL® — Aiven docs ↗
“Aiven for PostgreSQL is the perfect fit for your relational data. A scalable SQL database solution that can be up and running within a few minutes. [...] Find a comprehensive per-release documentation on the PostgreSQL project website.”
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- Pricing — TigerData ↗
“TimescaleDB Enterprise Self-managed TimescaleDB for on-prem, edge and private cloud Open source TimescaleDB Time-series, real-time analytics and events”
Read 2026-09-06 · official site · Report a correction
Connection limit
- Aiven
- Set per plan, not by a formula: 100 on the entry paid plan (Startup-4), rising to 200, 400, 800 and 1000 as the plan grows, with 25 on Hobbyist, 20 on Free and 15 on Developer. Aiven states plainly that it does not apply a per-GiB formula, and that some of the allowance is used by Aiven itself to manage the service.
- TigerData
- max_connections settable 25-500 on services from 0.5 CPU / 2 GiB to 4 CPU / 16 GiB, and 25-2000 from 8 CPU / 32 GiB up; fixed at 25 on shared CPU
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Connection limits per plan for Aiven for PostgreSQL® — Aiven docs ↗
“Default values of the max_connections setting vary according to the service plan: Plan Max connections Developer 15 Free 20 Hobbyist 25 Startup/Business/Premium-4 100 Startup/Business/Premium-8 200 Startup/Business/Premium-16 400 Startup/Business/Premium-32 800 Startup/Business/Premium-64 and above 1000 note Aiven can utilize any number of the connections for managing the service. Aiven for PostgreSQL doesn't apply a fixed per-GiB connection formula”
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- Connection pooling | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“You can set max_connections within the following ranges, based on your service memory and CPU configuration: Configuration Minimum Maximum Shared memory and CPU 25 25 From 0.5 CPU / 2 GiB to 4 CPU / 16 GiB 25 500 8 CPU / 32 GiB and more 25 2000”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Database branching
- Aiven
- Limited — a full copy from the latest backup, not copy-on-write
- TigerData
- Supported — Service forks, created at current state, last snapshot, or a timestamp in the plan recovery window.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Fork a service — Aiven for PostgreSQL® — Aiven docs ↗
“Fork your Aiven for PostgreSQL® service to create an independent copy for testing, debugging, or development without affecting the original service. Fork an Aiven service to create a complete copy of it from its latest backup. Forked services are independent and don't share resources with or increase the load on the original service. Common use cases for forking include: Creating a snapshot to analyze an issue. Creating a development copy of your production environment.”
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- Fork services | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“Fork a service to create isolated database branches for testing and development [...] A fork is an exact copy of a service at a specific point in time, with its own independent data and configuration”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Point-in-time recovery
- Aiven
- Bounded by the plan's backup history, so 2 days on the entry paid plan and 30 at the top. Granularity is fine within that: full backups daily with write-ahead logs copied every 5 minutes or per new file, whichever comes first.
- TigerData
- 3 days on Performance, with cross-region backups available for disaster recovery on higher tiers.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven for PostgreSQL® backups — Aiven docs ↗
“Aiven for PostgreSQL® databases are automatically backed up, with full backups made daily, and write-ahead logs (WAL) copied at 5 minute intervals, or for every new file generated. All backups are encrypted using pghoard, an open source tool developed and maintained by Aiven.”
Read 2026-09-09 · official docs · Report a correction
- Pricing — TigerData ↗
“Point-in-time-recovery to 3 days Performance Insights Basic support (9-5 ET)”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Backup retention
- Aiven
- By plan: none on Hobbyist, 2 days on Startup, 14 on Business, 30 on Premium. The magnitude is Startup's 2 days, the entry paid plan. Aiven's high-availability page states 2 days for Hobbyist where the backups page states none — the backups page is the more specific of the two and is what is recorded here.
- TigerData
- One full backup weekly plus daily incrementals, kept for the plan recovery period; Enterprise can set 14-180 days; cross-region copies always kept 14 days
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven for PostgreSQL® backups — Aiven docs ↗
“Backup retention time by plan The number of stored backups and the backup retention time depends on the service plan that you have selected. Plan Type Backup Retention Time Hobbyist None Startup 2 days Business 14 days Premium 30 days”
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- Back up and recover services | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“Tiger Cloud automatically creates one full backup every week, and incremental backups every day in the same region as your service. [...] on Enterprise you can set a retention period of up to 180 days for each service. [...] Cross-region backups are always kept for 14 days.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Support on entry paid plan
- Aiven
- Documentation on the free tier; email with best-effort same or next business day responses on paid plans. Faster responses and phone support are three further tiers, charged separately.
- TigerData
- Basic support, 9-5 ET, on the entry plan. Enterprise adds production support at 24x7.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven Pricing ↗
“Support Offers three additional support tiers with separate charge that include faster response times and phone support Support via documentation Support through email with best-effort responses during the same or next business day”
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- Tiger Data Pricing ↗
“point-in-time-recovery to 3 days performance insights basic support (9-5 ET) [...] production support (24x7, 1 hour response time for sev 1 issues)”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
SOC 2
- Aiven
- We also provide ISAE 3000/SOC2 Type II reports.
- TigerData
- SOC 2 Type 2 compliant; the annual report is available to customers on the Scale or Enterprise pricing plans by support ticket.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Security, Privacy & Compliance | Aiven ↗
“We also provide ISAE 3000/SOC2 Type II reports.”
Read 2026-09-22 · official site · Report a correction
- About security in Tiger Cloud | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“Tiger Cloud is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. [...] The annual SOC 2 report is available to customers on the Scale or Enterprise pricing plans. Open a support ticket to get access to it.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
HIPAA
- Aiven
- Our services are ISO 27000-series, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliant.
- TigerData
- The Tiger Cloud Enterprise plan is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. Enterprise plan only.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Security, Privacy & Compliance | Aiven ↗
“Our services are ISO 27000-series, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliant.”
Read 2026-09-22 · official site · Report a correction
- About security in Tiger Cloud | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“The Tiger Cloud Enterprise plan is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Encryption at rest
- Aiven
- All data is fully encrypted end-to-end at rest and in transit.
- TigerData
- Both active databases and backups are encrypted at rest (and in transit) with the industry-standard AES-256 algorithm.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Security, Privacy & Compliance | Aiven ↗
“All data is fully encrypted end-to-end at rest and in transit.”
Read 2026-09-22 · official site · Report a correction
- About security in Tiger Cloud | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“Your data on Tiger Cloud is encrypted both in transit and at rest. Both active databases and backups are encrypted. [...] Data encryption uses the industry-standard AES-256 algorithm.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Private networking / VPC
- Aiven
- Deploy services directly into your own cloud account for data residency and VPC peering.
- TigerData
- VPC peering leaves no public internet access to the service; AWS PrivateLink private endpoints route traffic over the AWS network.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Aiven - Your AI-ready Open Source Data Platform ↗
“Deploy services directly into your own cloud account for data residency and VPC peering.”
Read 2026-09-21 · official site · Report a correction
- About security in Tiger Cloud | Tiger Data Docs ↗
“When using VPC peering, no public Internet-based access is provided to the service. [...] Tiger Cloud enables you to connect to your services through a private endpoint in AWS using AWS PrivateLink.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Aiven or TigerData?
Aiven: $5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud or region and no connection pooling. The first plan that behaves like a production service is Startup at $75 a month or $0.10 an hour, which is where the uptime SLA and multi-CPU sizing begin; Hobbyist sits between them at $12.
TigerData: Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separately. Scale starts at $36/month.
Should I choose Aiven or TigerData?
Pick Aiven if Teams who want more than one open-source data service from one vendor and one bill — Postgres beside Kafka, ClickHouse or OpenSearch — with the availability tier chosen per service rather than fixed.
Pick TigerData if Time-series and analytics workloads that want to stay in Postgres — TimescaleDB's compression is the reason the storage line is affordable at volume.
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