MySQL Consultancy Services
We have consulted for some of the largest internet properties from diversified verticals like Mobile Ad. Networks, Online Commerce, FinTech. companies, Mobile Gaming Platforms, Social Media Applications and SaaS, Helping them to build optimal, scalable, highly available, reliable and secured planet-scale database infrastructure operations on MySQL . Our MySQL consultants are usually available (both onsite and remote) on a short notice. To know more about MinervaDB Enterprise-Class MySQL Consultative Support, please download our factsheet here, Our dedicated MySQL consulting team is ready to help you in the following areas:
Comprehensive MySQL Architecture, Engineering, and Operations: Delivering Performance, Scalability, High Availability, and Compliance at Web Scale
Our comprehensive suite of Architecture, Engineering, and Operations services is designed to deliver high-performance, web-scale, and reliable MySQL database environments tailored to the evolving needs of modern enterprises. We specialize in architecting MySQL operations with a strategic focus on performance optimization, scalability, and operational resilience. Our approach begins with meticulous capacity planning and sizing, ensuring that infrastructure investments align precisely with current workloads and future growth trajectories. By leveraging optimal and scalable SQL engineering practices, we enable organizations to build robust database foundations capable of supporting demanding applications. Our flexible managed DBA services provide expert oversight across the database lifecycle, from optimal installation and configuration to continuous 24×7 performance monitoring, proactive troubleshooting, and rapid incident response. We implement comprehensive backup and restoration strategies to safeguard data integrity and ensure business continuity in the face of disruptions. To maximize availability and fault tolerance, we design and deploy highly available MySQL infrastructures using proven techniques such as replication, clustering, and load balancing.
In the domain of performance and scalability, our MySQL solutions are engineered for excellence. We conduct rigorous performance benchmarking and health checks to identify bottlenecks and optimize system behavior. Our diagnostics and forensics capabilities enable deep analysis of performance issues, leading to targeted tuning of MySQL system variables, SQL queries, and indexing strategies. Index optimization and tuning play a central role in accelerating query execution and reducing latency. For applications requiring massive scale, we implement advanced scale-out and sharding architectures that distribute load efficiently across multiple nodes, enabling linear scalability.
High availability and database reliability are core tenets of our engineering philosophy. We design and deploy custom MySQL replication solutions—including master-slave, master-master, and delayed slave configurations for rollback scenarios—that ensure data redundancy and facilitate disaster recovery. Our expertise extends to modern high availability frameworks such as MySQL Group Replication, Galera Cluster, and MySQL NDB Cluster, enabling synchronous, multi-master topologies with self-healing and auto-failover capabilities. We integrate these with intelligent load-balancing solutions to distribute traffic effectively and maintain seamless application connectivity during failovers. Our Database Reliability Engineering (DRE) consultancy services further enhance system resilience through proactive monitoring, automation, and incident response planning.
Security and regulatory compliance are integral to our service offerings. We are experts in implementing data privacy controls that protect sensitive information in accordance with global standards. Our data masking and de-identification solutions ensure that personally identifiable information (PII), primary account numbers (PANs), and other confidential data are obscured from unauthorized access. These controls support compliance with key regulations including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the UK’s Data Protection Act, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). By embedding security into database design and operations, we help organizations mitigate risk, protect customer trust, and meet stringent audit requirements. Collectively, our services empower businesses to build, manage, and scale MySQL environments that are not only high-performing and resilient but also secure and compliant in today’s complex regulatory landscape.
☛ Architecture, Engineering and Operations
- Architecting MySQL Operations for Performance, Web-Scale and Reliability.
- Capacity Planning and Sizing
- Optimal and Scalable SQL Engineering Services
- Flexible Managed DBA Services
- Choosing Storage Engines for MySQL Performance, Scalability and High Availability
- Designing Schema for Performance and Scalability
- Database Reliability Engineering Consultancy Services
☛ Remote DBA Services Consultancy Services
- Optimal Installation and Configuration of MySQL Infrastructure Operations
- MySQL Infrastructure Operations Performance Monitoring (24*7)
- Proactive and Reactive Troubleshooting
- MySQL Backup and Restoration
- Building Highly Available, Reliable and Fault Tolerant MySQL Infrastructure Operations
☛ MySQL Performance and Scalability Solutions
- MySQL Performance Benchmarking
- Capacity Planning and Sizing
- MySQL Performance HealthCheck, Diagnostics and Forensics
- MySQL Performance Optimization and Tuning – Configuring MySQL system variables for performance
- SQL Optimization
- Index Optimization and Tuning
- MySQL Scale-out and Sharding Solution
☛ MySQL High Availability and Database Reliability Engineering Solution
- MySQL Replication Solutions:
- Custom MySQL Replication Solutions – Master – Master, Master-Slave and Master-Slave-Delayed Slave (Rollback Solution)
- MySQL Group Replication
- Self-Healing and Auto-failover MySQL Replication Solution
- Galera Cluster Consulting and Managed Services
- MySQL Load-Balancer Consulting
- MySQL NDB Cluster Solutions
☛ MySQL Data Privacy and Security Consulting Services
We are experts in implementing regulations which require data masking of PII (personally identifiable information), PANs (Primary Account Number) and other confidential data so that only authorised personnel can access the data. We deliver data Masking and De-identification solutions which provides specific functions to mask and de-identify confidential data so your IT organization can comply with privacy regulations, including:
- GDPR:General Data Protection Directive
- PCI DSS:Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- HIPAA:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HITECH:Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
- Data Protection Act:United Kingdom
- SOX:Sarbanes Oxley
- FERPA:Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- And many more
| MinervaDB Database Infrastructure Operations Security Audit | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| Detailed Database Infrastructure Operations Security Audit and Recommendations for MySQL and MariaDB | US $15,000 / DB Instance |
☛ MinervaDB Benefits
- Vendor neutral and independent, Enterprise-class consulting, 24*7 support and remote DBA services for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
- Virtual corporation with an global team of seasoned professionals – We have consultants operating from multiple locations worldwide, All of us work from home and stay connected via email, Google Hangouts, Skype, private IRC, WhatsApp, Telegram and phone. Being an virtual corporation we can hire the best talent from anywhere in the world, This makes an truly 24*7 operational team.
- Competitive pricing – We are an virtual corporation so we don’t charge the customers for our infrastructure cost, What you pay us goes purely for our unmatched technology team.
- Big Data Analytics and Columnar Store expertise – MariaDB ColumnStore and ClickHouse.
- We operate 24*7 – Our team operates from multiple locations worldwide so we are available 24*7.
- Pay As You Go billing model – You pay us only for the hours worked, We don’t ask for advances ever !! We are committed to delivering cost efficient consulting, support and services for our customers globally.
- Transparent ticketing system – We share with you the detailed work report of what we have done for your database infrastructure, This also includes how you will get benefitted with change we have done. We love absolutes transparency and detailed documentation.
- Emergency support available for you even when you are not our customer, Emergency support channels – Email, Slack, Google Hangouts, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and Phone.
- Pay per incident option available – You need our support in just fixing a single incident ? No problem, We have that option available.
- Vacation DBA Service – We can support your database infrastructure operations when the resident DBA is on a holiday / vacation so you can guarantee an optimal work-life balance for your DBA.
- Cloud DBA Services – IaaS and DBaaS including: Oracle Cloud, Google CloudSQL, Amazon Aurora, AWS RDS®, EC2®, Microsoft Azure® and Rackspace® Cloud.
☛ A low cost and instant gratification health check-up for your MySQL infrastructure operations
- Highly responsive and proactive MySQL performance health check-up, diagnostics and forensics.
- Detailed report on your MySQL configuration, expensive SQL, index operations, performance, scalability and reliability.
- Recommendations for building an optimal, scalable, highly available and reliable MySQL infrastructure operations.
- Per MySQL instance performance audit, detailed report and recommendations.
- Security Audit – Detailed Database Security Audit Report which includes the results of the audit and an actionable Compliance and Security Plan for fixing vulnerabilities and ensuring the ongoing security of your data.
** You are paying us only for the MySQL instance we have worked for :
| MySQL Health Check-up | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| MySQL infrastructure operations detailed health check-up, diagnostics report and recommendations | US $15,000 / MySQL instance |
- How business gets benefitted from our MySQL health check-up, diagnostics reports and recommendations ?
- You can hire us only for auditing the selected MySQL instances.
- Proactive and result oriented approach for MySQL maximum availability and reliability.
- Detailed MySQL infrastructure operations audit report, interpretation and recommendation for performance, scalability, availability and database infrastructure operations reliability.
- On-demand – You can schedule for an on-demand MySQL infrastructure operations health check-up once registered as our customer (customer registration will be free forever).
- Security Audit and Recommendations for your Database Infrastructure Operations.
- Flexible payment options – PayPal, Wire, Cheque and Cash.
- Vendor neutral and independent – MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, MyRocks, InnoDB / XtraDB, TokuDB and RocksDB.
☛ Consulting Rates (We do both on-site and remote MySQL consulting)
Sometimes you need Sr. level MySQL consultants on-site for both strategic and technical consulting, Our consultants have several years of experience in architecting and building web-scale database infrastructure operations addressing performance, scalability and high availability . We have travelled to 46 cities in the world for Database Architect and DBA consulting.
| On-Site MySQL Consulting | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| Per Diem | US $600 / hour |
We can do everything remote (except few strategic database infrastructure operations discussions which demand on-site presence ) when it comes to MySQL technical consulting, This include performance optimization , scaling database infrastructure operations (both vertically and horizontally ) , high availability, disaster recovery and data recovery services. We are usually available on an short notice.
| Remote MySQL Consulting | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| Per Diem | US $350 / hour |
★ We deliver Consulting and Professional Services for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and MyRocks.
☛ Data Recovery Services
We can provide Data Recovery Services for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server in the case following scenarios :
- Accidently dropped databases or tables
- Corrupted data files
- Corrupted XtraBackup
- Corrupted replication
- Corrupted file system
- ** If you have data in media, We can recover it for you !
| Data Recovery Services | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| Per Diem | US $500/hour |
** We always try our best to recover data for you (our recovery rate is high) but sometimes we may not be able to recover 100% of your data.
☛ Flexible consulting plans
If you are a startup or need only few hours of consulting every month then our flexible consulting plan will be the most optimal solution for you, You will have access to our seasoned team of consultants on-demand without signing-up for any longterm consulting contracts:
| Avg. Hours / Month | Quarterly ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) | Six-Monthly ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) | Annually ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | US $4,500.00 | US $8,500.00 | US $15,500.00 |
| 8 | US $7,500.00 | US $12,500.00 | US $25,500.00 |
| 12 | US $7,500.00 | US $15,500.00 | US $27,500.00 |
| 16 | US $8,500.00 | US $16,500.00 | US $30,500.00 |
| 20 | US $10,500.00 | US $18,800.00 | US $35,500.00 |
| 24 | US $15,000.00 | US $25,000.00 | US $45,500.00 |
| 28 | US $18,500.00 | US $35,500.00 | US $52,500.00 |
| 32 | US $21,500.00 | US $40,000.00 | US $55,500.00 |
| 36 | US $28,000.00 | US $52,000.00 | US $75,000.00 |
| 40 | US $35,500.00 | US $65,500.00 | US $82,000.00 |
★ MinervaDB Flexible Consulting plans, Remote DBA packages and Enterprise-Class 24*7 support subscriptions are payable in advance, this so we can make sure we have the resources available to assist you. In return for this commitment, you pay a lower hourly rate.
