PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2026

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.

Aiven for PostgreSQL is a managed PostgreSQL Instance 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. The unique selling point is that the most managed services out there are either forks or any proprietary variants of PostgreSQL. Aiven is the only or one of the very rare providers aligning with the true core and open source version.

PostgreSQL is one of our largest drivers so we try to support the community with bugfixing and any kind of contribution somehow possible with our team. We also hope to ensure that the community behind postgres is supported. This year, Aiven has committed to sponsoring and participating in many PostgreSQL events in the United States, APAC and Europe. We also have individuals at Aiven that are contributors and independently members of the PostgreSQL associations in the US and Europe.

For us there is no specific feature more or less important than the fact to give customers the chance to use every feature as fast and reliable as possible. Because our managed PostgreSQL service is exactly the core version without any proprietary changes we were the very first DBaaS provider having the latest version 18 available for production right on the same time like the official release. We spend a huge effort to take part in testing the beta versions and the release candidates based on functionality and also for our deployment. So it doesn’t matter which feature we benefit the most, we are benefitting from having customers being able to use all the features directly and with a smooth experience.

We try to provide as many extensions as possible to bring the best experience which is always a huge task for managed 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.

PostgreSQL is at the heart of what we do at Aiven, and we believe strongly in supporting the community that drives its success. Sponsoring PostgreSQL related Conferences is our way of contributing to that community, sharing knowledge, and connecting with developers, architects, and businesses that rely on PostgreSQL to power their data infrastructure. It is also a great opportunity to engage with users, exchange ideas, and hear directly from the people who are building with Postgres every day.