Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-47265189-20201028120749

Hey, I've been living alone for a few months now, since my kids moved out. As a mother this is of course very difficult, because I want to protect them, but you also have to give them their space. Of course I understand that.

So that I don't have to write them all day long on messanger services, I want to put all my energy into a project that I have been pursuing for quite some time. I want to switch my whole house over to Smart Home. I work in an IT department, so I already have some basic knowledge in this area. Unfortunately I'm not sure which database management system to use for this.

I am torn between Kafka and PostgreSQL. Which one would you use? I also read that with a certain provider it should be possible to connect several databases with each other. Aiven is the name of the provider.

What do you think about Aiven, have you ever worked with it? Is the data processing really as fast as advertised on the website? And how is it with connecting databases, does it work? Because that would be a really great thing! 