Database Services and Consultancy

Expert MariaDB, MySQL Consulting and PostgreSQL DBA Services

Shattered Silicon enables organisations to augment their database administration and maintenance capabilities. They can do this by leveraging the skills and experience our highly qualified database experts. We are completely vendor-independent. This enables us to provide impartial consultancy and support services for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. We have no vested interest in the choice of platform or technology – our only interest is providing our clients with the best, most appropriate solution possible for the problem they are solving. Our expert consultants are available 24/7 to help you increase performance, flexibility and business continuity of your database systems. We provide on-site MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL consulting in Europe and remote DBA consulting world-wide. Our experts have consulted for some of the largest companies in a range of industry verticals. These include mobile and online advertising, commerce, fintech, banking, insurance, mobile and online gaming, social media and SaaS.

Our dedicated MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL consulting team is always standing by to help you with your requirements. The most common areas where we are called upon to deliver improvements are:

Performance

Performance optimization
Configuration tuning
Index optimization and tuning
Query optimization
Materialised views for reporting workloads

High Availability and Reliability Engineering

Configuration and testing of backups and disaster recovery processes
Server deployments
Architecting highly available, fault tolerant infrastructures

MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL Consulting and Remote DBA Services

Managed DBA services
Capacity planning and server sizing
Advising on storage engines
Proactive and reactive troubleshooting

Are Our MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL Consulting Services For You?

Our services are primarily aimed at companies in the following situations:

Too small to warrant employing a full time DBA or
Too large and complex for the existing full time DBAs to effectively look after
Need temporary augmentation to their skills for deploying new infrastructure for a project

There are a number of telltale signs you may be experiencing. For example, a common manifestation is an explosion in workload of your “accidental DBA”. This typically leaves them with insufficient capacity to effectively carry out their primary duties. Other common symptoms include deteriorating system performance or increased lack of confidence in disaster recovery capabilities.

If the state of your databases is causing you concern, we can almost certainly help. Contact us today!

MySQL

MySQL is the most widely used open source relational database in the world. It is available for virtually all platforms and operating systems in use today. MySQL is currently owned by Oracle, through it’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. Our certified MySQL consulting team has decades of experience with providing expert MySQL consulting to nearly a hundred clients.

MariaDB

MariaDB is the fastest growing open source relation database, in terms of popularity. It is a fork of MySQL and has increasingly been replacing MySQL as the default variant in most Linux distributions. Our MariaDB specialists have a decade of experience with MariaDB and can help you with any MariaDB problem you may be facing.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is the second most popular open source database in the world. It is an excellent choice for a wide range of workloads and for some specific uses has features that it’s main competitors lack.

Source: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend

SUBSCRIPTION BASED DATABASE SERVER SUPPORT
1-4 hour response SLA For production systems based on MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Includes monthly health check and upgrade support.
Price: From £150 / $200 / €180 per server / per month

PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND OPTIMISATION
Extensive performance review and optimisation of your existing database estate. Covers server and database configuration and in-depth query and workload analysis.
Prices: From £1500 / $2000 / €1800

DATABASE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
If you are embarking on a new project and want to make sure your database systems will provide the required availability and scale with your projected growth, we can help you avoid unexpected pitfalls.
Price: From £600 / $800 / €720

CONSULTANCY
For any other database requirements, we offer consultancy services to help you with database and systems administration, monitoring, development (e.g. stored procedures), database architecture and migrations as and when you require.
Price: From £600 / $800 / €720 per day

“The work carried out was excellent. Ten times better than Percona.”

Riley BestChief Executive Officer –

“Gordan from Shattered Silicon consulted into Transactis at a time they were in need of an expert consultant to extensively optimise their MySQL database during a key software product launch. Feedback from the client was excellent at all times and indeed he was able to provide services above and beyond their expectations. Personally Gordan was a pleasure to work and I would gladly work with him again.”

JJ McCarthyRecruiting Agent

“Shattered Silicon are an absolute pleasure to work with. Their technical skills are amazing and I would rate their abilities on par with the very best in the world. It’s obvious their team goes out of their way to learn, test and benchmark the latest features and functionality. They are able to communicate complex technical issues clearly to both technical and business people. They deliver what they promise and have never missed a deadline.”

Calum ReayCEO, INT 6

“The Consultant from Shattered Silicon is an extremely knowledgeable and capable System Administrator who was key to supporting legacy systems as well as implementing new ones. They were flexible and displayed a great attitude, and I would happily work with them again.“

Simon DayGriffin Internet Head of Operations, at the time of contract

I can’t recommend Shattered Silicon highly enough! They were quick to respond and understand what we needed, knew immediately what action we needed to take and helped us apply their suggestions. They are quick to offer very detailed advice, and have been a real pleasure to work with (and will continue to work with in the future). In terms of value for money the benefit we’ve gained in just a few hours of their time has been fantastic!

Kevin DaviesHead of Product –

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Expert MariaDB, MySQL Consulting and PostgreSQL DBA Services