Database Engineering
Design, migration, tuning and administration of relational and non-relational databases built for performance and resilience.
What's included
Deliverables
- Schema review and data model design
- Migration plan with rollback strategy
- Query and index performance tuning
- Backup, replication and DR testing
- Runbooks and monitoring dashboards
Focus areas
Where we help most
- Schema design & migration
- Performance tuning
- Backup & disaster recovery
Case study
Healthcare software vendor
Healthcare
Reporting queries were timing out at peak and the recovery plan had never been tested.
Re-modelled hot tables, rebuilt indexing strategy and introduced tested point-in-time recovery.
- 22x
- Faster peak queries
- 11 min
- Verified recovery time
"Peak reporting went from timing out to instant, and we finally have a recovery plan we've tested rather than hoped for."
FAQs
Common questions
+Which engines do you support?
PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB and managed cloud equivalents.
+Can you migrate without downtime?
In most cases, using replication and cutover windows measured in minutes rather than hours.
+Do you offer ongoing DBA cover?
Yes, as a retained service with agreed response times and monthly health reporting.
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