FULL-STACK DATABASE INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING & ANALYTICS
Mission-Critical Database Infrastructure, Engineered to Perform Under Any Load
MinervaDB is the database engineering partner enterprises trust to design, operate, and scale PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, SAP HANA, ClickHouse, Trino, Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, Milvus, and every major cloud DBaaS platform — backed by senior practitioners, 24×7 global operations, and a strict commitment to vendor neutrality. Our database engineering services ensure optimal performance and reliability.
20+
Years engineering planet-scale databases
24×7
Global operations under strict SLA
15+
Engines & DBaaS platforms supported
90%
Typical cost reduction vs. in-house senior DBA
Engineering teams across fintech, telecom, SaaS, e-commerce, gaming, healthcare, and digital advertising rely on MinervaDB to keep mission-critical databases fast, available, and secure.
The Database Engineering Practice Behind Internet-Scale Systems
Comprehensive Database Engineering Services Tailored to Your Needs
MinervaDB is a specialist consulting and operations firm focused exclusively on enterprise database infrastructure. We are not a generalist IT services company that happens to do database work — we are database engineers who have spent careers inside PostgreSQL internals, ClickHouse MergeTree storage, InnoDB lock managers, MongoDB shard balancers, and the kernel paths that determine whether a system meets its SLA.
Engineering teams come to us with three recurring problems: a database that no longer scales with the business, an outage pattern that monitoring tools cannot explain, or an operations burden that is consuming the engineering roadmap. The work we do — architecture, performance engineering, high availability, and 24×7 Remote DBA — exists to remove those problems and return the in-house team’s time to the product.
Five Pillars of Database Engineering Excellence
Every MinervaDB engagement is structured around five disciplines that determine whether a database earns enterprise trust. We apply each pillar with the depth of a practitioner, not the gloss of an advisor.
Performance Engineering
Query plans, wait events, lock graphs, and kernel-level traces — not dashboard guesses. We tune at every layer: SQL, schema, indexes, buffer caches, connection pools, OS, and storage. Outcomes are measured in p95/p99 latency, sustained throughput, and headroom under peak load.
Scalability
Sharding, partitioning, read replicas, auto-scaling, and connection pooling architected for the workload the business actually runs. Capacity plans are built bottom-up from real traffic, not vendor sizing guides — and validated against workload replay before production cutover.
High Availability
Streaming and logical replication, Patroni, Galera, InnoDB Cluster, Always On AGs, ClickHouse Keeper — implemented to defined RPO and RTO targets and stress-tested against real failure scenarios, not just happy-path failover demos.
Database Reliability Engineering
SRE principles applied to data systems: error budgets, SLOs, deep observability, blameless postmortems, runbook automation, and chaos testing. Reliability becomes an engineering property of the platform, not an aspiration.
Data Security & Compliance
Encryption at rest and in transit, role separation, least-privilege access, audit logging, and change controls aligned with GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 audit posture. Security is designed in at the architecture stage, not bolted on at the end.
Data Strategy & Operations
Beyond individual engines: data architecture, pipeline design, real-time streaming, data lake and lakehouse strategy, governance, and the operational model that keeps the platform trustworthy as the business grows.
Services Engineered Around Real Operational Problems
Four service lines, delivered by senior engineers who have run the systems in production. Each engagement is scoped to a measurable outcome — never to a billable-hour ceiling.
Database Consulting & Architecture
Independent architecture reviews, technology selection, capacity planning, and migration design across SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, and cloud-native engines. Output is always written, decision-grade, and ready to execute.
- Greenfield architecture and topology design
- Multi-cloud and hybrid database strategy
- Migration planning and cutover orchestration
- Database modernization and re-platforming
Performance Engineering
Diagnostic engagements that find and eliminate the bottlenecks an APM tool cannot see — using execution plans, wait analysis, eBPF, and kernel-level tracing on the running workload.
- SQL and execution plan optimization
- Index, partitioning, and storage engine tuning
- Connection pooling and parallelism design
- OS, filesystem, and kernel tuning
24×7 Remote DBA & Managed Services
Operations as a service: continuous monitoring, incident response under SLA, patching, backup validation, capacity reviews, and quarterly architecture audits.
- 24×7 monitoring and on-call coverage
- Proactive troubleshooting and bug fixes
- Patch, upgrade, and version management
- Backup, DR, and compliance reporting
Data Platform & Analytics Engineering
Real-time ingestion, columnar warehouses, query federation, and vector workloads built to serve sub-second analytics and AI use cases at petabyte scale without runaway cost.
- ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks
- Trino federation and lakehouse architecture
- Kafka, Debezium, Kinesis, and Flink pipelines
- Vector search on Milvus, pgvector, OpenSearch
Database Engines and Cloud Platforms We Engineer
MinervaDB is intentionally vendor-neutral. We recommend the engine that fits the workload, not the one that fits a partner program. Coverage spans relational, NoSQL, analytical, streaming, vector, and cloud-managed systems.
For ClickHouse, our partner ChistaDATA delivers 24×7 consultative support and managed services as part of the MinervaDB practice.
The MinervaDB Method — Assess, Architect, Engineer, Operate
Every engagement follows a four-stage method that produces working systems, measurable improvements, and a runbook the in-house team owns at the end.
01
Assess
A focused two-to-three week audit of the database estate: workload profile, schema health, replication lag, backup integrity, observability gaps, and security posture.
02
Architect
A written target architecture — replication topology, capacity plan, storage layout, security model, observability stack, recovery design — with concrete configurations.
03
Engineer
Senior engineers implement alongside the in-house team — tuning instances, rewriting queries, building automation, deploying observability, rehearsing failover.
04
Operate
A fully documented handover — or a 24×7 Remote DBA contract covering monitoring, incident response, capacity reviews, patching, and quarterly architecture review.
Why Engineering Teams Choose MinervaDB
Practitioners, Not Generalists
Every senior engineer has run the engines we consult on at production scale. We bring code, configuration, and internals knowledge — not generalized advice.
Vendor-Neutral by Design
No reseller quotas, no implementation bias. Every recommendation is optimized for workload fit, total cost of operation, and long-term maintainability.
24×7 Global Coverage
Distributed engineering pods across multiple time zones. An on-call engineer with full context is available under contracted SLAs — not a ticket queue.
Boutique Service, Enterprise Standards
San Francisco Bay Area based with global reach. Boutique-firm responsiveness combined with the operational rigor expected by Fortune 500 audit teams.
Pay-As-You-Go Engagement
Engagements start at 40 hours. Transparent billing. No multi-year lock-in. Roughly 90% cost reduction compared to hiring senior in-house DBAs.
Compliance-Ready Delivery
GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 controls baked into every architecture and every operational handover — not added after the fact.
“A database is not infrastructure that quietly serves the business — it is the business. The query that pays the salary, the write that completes the payment, the read that surfaces the recommendation. MinervaDB exists to engineer that layer with the seriousness it deserves, so the teams building on top can ship without fear.”
Shiv Iyer — Founder & Chief Executive Officer, MinervaDB Inc.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does MinervaDB do?
MinervaDB is a specialist database engineering firm. We design, build, tune, and operate enterprise database infrastructure across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, SAP HANA, ClickHouse, Trino, Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, Milvus, and the major cloud DBaaS platforms — including 24×7 Remote DBA services under contracted SLAs.
Which database engines and cloud platforms do you support?
Coverage spans relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Cosmos DB), in-memory (Redis, Valkey), analytical (ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Druid, Pinot, StarRocks), federation (Trino), vector (Milvus, pgvector), and cloud DBaaS (RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner). MinervaDB is vendor-neutral across all of them.
How is an engagement structured?
Most engagements start with a focused database assessment that produces a written architecture and remediation plan. From there, work scales into project-based engineering, a performance retainer, or a 24×7 Remote DBA contract. Engagements begin at 40 hours with no long-term lock-in.
Can MinervaDB act as our extended DBA team?
Yes. The Remote DBA practice operates around the clock under defined SLAs and covers monitoring, incident response, patching, capacity reviews, backup validation, and audit reporting.
Which compliance frameworks do you operate under?
MinervaDB delivers under GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 control environments. Encryption at rest and in transit, role separation, audit logging, and change management are part of every architecture and handover.
How quickly can you engage?
Assessments and incident-response engagements typically begin within five business days. Full 24×7 Remote DBA onboarding — including environment access, runbook capture, and on-call integration — takes two to three weeks.
What does pricing look like?
MinervaDB operates on a pay-as-you-go model with transparent hourly billing and a 40-hour engagement minimum. Customers typically see roughly 90% cost reduction compared with hiring senior DBAs in-house, with the ability to scale engagement volume up or down each quarter.
Let’s Engineer the Database Layer the Business Deserves
Whether the next milestone is a migration off a legacy estate, a performance program against a strict latency SLA, or a managed operations contract that frees the engineering team to focus on the product — a 30-minute conversation with a MinervaDB engineer is enough to know whether we are the right partner.
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