Database Engineering

Your data layer is the foundation everything else stands on, including AI. Performant, well-structured, well-governed data is the difference between AI that actually works and AI that hallucinates. We migrate, consolidate, tune, back up, and audit databases so they’re ready to feed the workloads of today and the AI workloads of tomorrow.

Everything Your Data Layer Needs

Five core database services. Engaged individually for a one-off project, or together as a programme to bring your entire data estate up to standard, ready for AI workloads, retrieval-augmented generation, and the agent economy.

3 to 10x Typical query performance gains after a tuning engagement. We profile real workloads, fix the indexing, and remove the joins and locks that slow your application down, with measurable before-and-after benchmarks.

Database Migrations

Move databases between platforms, versions, or clouds with zero data loss and minimum downtime. We handle schema conversion, data validation, and cutover planning end-to-end.

Cross-platform conversion Schema mapping Validated cutover Rollback procedures

Database Consolidation

Reduce sprawl. Consolidate fragmented databases onto a unified platform, cutting licensing costs, simplifying operations, and removing the integration nightmares that come with duplicate sources of truth.

Sprawl assessment Master-data design Licensing rationalisation Decommissioning plan

Performance Tuning

Profile, diagnose, fix. We hunt down slow queries, missing indexes, lock contention, and bad query plans, then prove the gains with workload benchmarks before and after.

Query profiling Index strategy Lock & deadlock fix Benchmarked results

DR & Backup Setup

Lose nothing, recover fast. We design backup strategies sized to your RPO and RTO, set up cross-region replication, and run real recovery drills so you know it works before you need it.

RPO/RTO targets Cross-region replication Tested restore drills Encryption at rest

Full Database Audits

A complete picture of your data estate. Schema, security, access, performance, compliance and cost: each documented, scored and prioritised. Becomes the roadmap for every other engagement.

Schema review Access & security audit Compliance gap analysis Prioritised roadmap

Data That Pulls Its Weight

Faster Applications

Tuned databases mean snappier user experiences and lower compute costs. The difference between a 200ms query and a 20ms query compounds across every page load.

Lower Licensing Costs

Consolidation removes duplicate licenses. Right-sizing removes over-provisioned ones. We help you pay for the database capacity you actually use, not what you used to need.

Resilience You Can Prove

Backups that have been tested. Replication that has been failed over. Recovery times that have been measured. We don’t hand you a DR plan that has never run.

Operational Simplicity

Fewer platforms, cleaner schemas, documented runbooks. Your team spends less time firefighting database incidents and more time shipping features.

Audit-Ready Compliance

UK GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FCA, NHS DSP: we map your databases against the standards that apply, close gaps, and document what you can show an auditor.

No Vendor Lock-In

We work across PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and the cloud-managed equivalents. We pick the right tool for your workload, not the one we’re tied to.

From Audit to Outcomes

A clear, structured engagement, from understanding what you have today to delivering measurable improvements.

01

Audit

We catalogue every database in your estate, platforms, versions, schemas, sizes, owners, access patterns, security posture, compliance gaps. You receive a scored report with a prioritised list of issues and quick wins.

02

Plan

From the audit, we design the target state, whether that means a tuning sprint, a consolidation programme, a migration to a managed service, or a DR rebuild. Fixed-price scope, clear success criteria, no surprises.

03

Deliver

We execute against the plan with version-controlled migrations, automated validation, and benchmarked checkpoints. Your team is informed at every milestone, no work happens behind the curtain.

04

Hand Over

Documentation, runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and 30 days of hypercare. Your team owns the result. We leave you with the knowledge to operate it, not the dependency on us to keep it running.

Platforms We Work With

PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Server Oracle MariaDB MongoDB AWS RDS Aurora Azure SQL Cloud SQL Redis Elasticsearch

Get a Free Database Audit

We’ll review your data estate and deliver a scored report with prioritised actions within 48 hours. No commitment, no sales pressure, just useful information you can act on.

Request Your Audit