Database Consulting Services

Choose the right level of support for your team. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute assessment call — no commitment required.

One-Time Engagement

Database Health Audit

Know exactly what's wrong — and what to fix first.

You get a thorough, expert review of your entire database setup. We dig into query performance, indexing strategy, replication health, backup reliability, security posture, and your monitoring coverage. You receive a detailed written report with prioritised recommendations you can act on immediately — whether you engage us further or hand it to your engineering team.

This is for you if…

Your database is getting slower, you're scaling fast and worried about what you'll hit next, you've never had a proper DBA review, or you're preparing for a funding round or compliance audit and need confidence your data layer is solid.

Pricing
Fixed-scope audit · Delivered within 5 business days

What's included

  • Full query performance analysis — slow query log review, EXPLAIN output, index audit
  • Replication health check (streaming replication, logical replication, binlog-based)
  • Backup and recovery verification — can you actually restore? How fast?
  • Security configuration review — roles, permissions, encryption, network exposure
  • Connection pooling and configuration tuning recommendations
  • Monitoring and alerting gap analysis
  • Written report with prioritised action plan (executive summary + technical detail)
  • 45-minute review call to walk through findings and answer questions
Retainer · Most Popular

Monthly Database Support

A senior DBA in your corner — without the full-time cost.

Your dedicated monthly retainer gives you ongoing access to expert database support, proactive monitoring, and priority response when something goes wrong. Think of it as having a senior DBA team on your side — without the cost and overhead of a full-time hire. We handle the database layer so your engineers can focus on building product.

This is for you if…

Your engineering team is great at building features but nobody has deep database expertise. You've had database incidents you couldn't resolve quickly. You're scaling and need someone watching the data layer proactively.

Pricing
3-month minimum · Includes 20–40 hrs/month depending on tier

What's included (all tiers)

  • Dedicated hours each month for tasks, reviews, and reactive support
  • Monthly performance review call and written summary report
  • Monitoring and alerting setup and tuning (PgBadger, pg_activity, CloudWatch, etc.)
  • Priority response for production issues — guaranteed response within 2 hours during business hours
  • Proactive query optimisation and schema review as your product evolves
  • Replication health monitoring and failover testing
  • Coverage across EU and US business hours (timezone overlap built in)
  • Slack or Teams integration for async communication
On-Demand · Urgent

Emergency Incident Response

Production is down. We can fix it.

Database emergencies don't wait for business hours. When your production database is down, replication has broken, or you're facing catastrophic performance degradation, you need senior DBA experts who can diagnose and resolve the issue fast — not a support ticket queue. We've handled PostgreSQL and MySQL emergencies for companies at every scale. We engage immediately and work until the issue is resolved.

This is for you if…

You're facing a production database outage, critical performance failure, data integrity issue, failed migration, or replication breakdown. Every minute of downtime costs you money — getting this fixed fast is worth far more than the engagement cost.

Pricing
Minimum engagement applies · Billed in 1-hour increments after minimum

What to expect

  • Immediate acknowledgement within 30 minutes of contact (during active hours)
  • Live diagnosis session via video call — we share our screen and talk through findings in real time
  • Direct database access review (read-only recommended; we'll guide your team on any writes)
  • Root cause identification with documented findings
  • Resolution implementation with your engineering team present
  • Post-incident report within 24 hours: what happened, why, and how to prevent recurrence
  • Follow-up recommendations to harden the setup

Support Plans & Response Targets

Choose the support tier that fits your system criticality. Each plan includes clearly defined severity-based response targets so your team knows exactly what to expect.

Premium

Availability: 24 hours × 7 days

  • Sev-115 minutes
  • Sev-230 minutes
  • Sev-360 minutes
  • Sev-41 business day

Best for mission-critical production systems with strict uptime requirements.

Basic

Availability: 8 hours × 5 days

  • Sev-160 minutes
  • Sev-22 hours
  • Sev-34 hours
  • Sev-42 business days

Good fit for stable systems where most support requests are non-urgent.

Sev-1full outage or critical business impact Sev-2major degradation with active users affected Sev-3partial impact or significant non-critical issue Sev-4low-impact request, question, or minor issue

Project-Based Services

Larger scoped engagements with clear deliverables and fixed or estimated pricing.

Migration Projects

Full-service database migration: Oracle → PostgreSQL, MySQL → PostgreSQL, on-premise → AWS RDS or Aurora, or version upgrades. Includes assessment, migration plan, dry runs, cutover strategy, and post-migration validation. Quoted individually based on database size and complexity.

Architecture Consulting

Designing your database layer for a new product, planning for scale, choosing between PostgreSQL and MySQL, evaluating managed services vs self-hosted, or designing a multi-region HA strategy? We provide expert architectural guidance with clear tradeoff analysis and a written recommendation document.

Risk-Free First Engagement

Not sure if the investment is worth it? Every new client relationship starts with a free 30-minute database assessment call. If after that call you choose to proceed with any paid service, we offer a satisfaction guarantee on your first engagement: if you're not happy with the deliverables, we'll revise them until you are — or refund you in full. We're building long-term client partnerships, not chasing one-off transactions.


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