OVHcloud

OVHcloud brings the same multi-engine breadth to managed databases that Aiven does, from a considerably larger European infrastructure company. Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, M3DB and Valkey (Redis-compatible) all run on OVHcloud's own European data centres rather than a hyperscaler's, with hourly billing down to the second and storage priced separately from compute. For a team already running compute on OVHcloud, adding a managed database means no new vendor relationship and no cross-provider egress.

OVHcloud SAS was founded in Roubaix in 1999 and remains one of Europe's few cloud providers that also builds its own hardware and data centres, with SecNumCloud certification from the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI and founding membership of Gaia-X.

The entry PostgreSQL tier — two vCPUs and 8GB of RAM — starts at about €0.16 an hour, with every other engine and tier priced on the same public catalogue. The trade-off next to Aiven is depth: OVHcloud's managed databases are a strong, transparently priced add-on to its cloud rather than the dedicated, single-purpose data platform Aiven has built its whole business around.

What OVHcloud does well

• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, M3DB and Valkey
• Transparent, publicly catalogued hourly pricing
• Own European data centres and hardware
• SecNumCloud certified, Gaia-X founding member
• No cross-provider egress if compute is also on OVHcloud

Where OVHcloud falls short

• A managed-database add-on to the cloud, not a dedicated data platform
• Fewer database-specific operational features than Aiven
• Console and tooling less polished than data-platform specialists
• Pricing is granular per resource, takes effort to estimate a real bill

Standout feature. The same engine breadth as Aiven — Postgres through Kafka to Cassandra — but billed by the second on OVHcloud's own European hardware.