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Database administration (DBA) services

Pythian provides 24/7 database administration (DBA) services, 365 days a year. Our teams of database administrators specialize in over 45 database, cloud, and data warehouse technologies. No matter where your data lives, Pythian’s teams of DBAs can manage it better—optimizing database performance with stronger monitoring tools and round the clock support.

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Pythian providers database administration (DBA) services.

Why outsource in-house teams for Pythian's database administration (DBA) services?

Global leaders trust Pythian’s database administration service

For over three decades, we’ve delivered world-class remote database administration (DBA) services to global customers. Our experience is at the core of our business, ensuring your databases are always reliable, scalable, and secure.

60%

Decrease in operational spending

By partnering with Pythian, customers cut operational costs by up to 60% with our remote database administration services.

25,000+

Databases managed

Our database administration services support thousands of systems across 45+ technologies—from data platforms and warehouses to databases and cloud environments.

500+

Global customers

As a global provider of database administration services, we serve over 500 customers across the world—many who have been with us for decades.

Optimize database performance

When complex performance bottlenecks threaten your business, Pythian’s database performance consulting services deliver the specialized expertise you need. We go beyond quick fixes to precisely identify and permanently resolve the true root causes of slowdowns, poor configuration, and infrastructure strain. Our teams of DBAs and database consultants will help you confidently deploy solutions that dramatically improve application speed, achieve rock-solid data availability, and efficiently scale your infrastructure to support continuous business growth.

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Better database monitoring

Pythian moves beyond simple alert systems to deliver 360-degree, predictive database monitoring that operates 24/7/365. Our proprietary tools and expert DBA team constantly analyze performance metrics, resource utilization, and emerging bottlenecks across your entire data estate. This proactive approach allows us to detect and resolve subtle configuration drift or performance degradation before they escalate into critical incidents. With better monitoring, you gain guaranteed uptime and optimal performance, ensuring a stable, high-performing foundation for all your business applications.

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Upgrade database version

Deferring crucial database upgrades can severely put your business at risk, exposing you to unsupported software, compliance gaps, and critical security vulnerabilities. Lean into our database upgrade consulting services to modernize your data environment with total confidence. Our expert consultants have successfully completed thousands of upgrades across more than 45 database and cloud technologies. We deliver a proven, low-risk process designed to be seamless, minimizing business disruption while ensuring a stable, secure, and fully supported foundation for the future.

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Remote DBA services

Our proven approach to remote DBA services relies on four main pillars: performance optimization, security and compliance, proactive monitoring and database upgrade management. These pillars ensure that your databases are fast, secure, recoverable from disasters, and stable through continuous preventive care and routine maintenance.

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Expert database support

Pythian goes beyond day-to-day database support services—we optimize the performance of your databases to ensure better data availability, stronger security, and set up your systems to scale as your business grows. Pythian's database support specialists have experience supporting customers around the globe in optimizing their databases. We have the expertise to efficiently guide customers toward their database goals, no matter their choice of database ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Publishing saved over $800,000 a year with remote DBA services

By partnering with Pythian, Harvard Business Publishing eliminated the need to hire and train in-house DBAs for multiple database platforms. This partnership saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars per year compared to hiring an internal team. The partnership freed up their internal resources to focus on more strategic initiatives, leading to increased overall efficiency.

Significant total cost of ownership (TCO) savings

We help you gain full financial control over your database operations. By leveraging our expertise in licensing optimization, platform rightsizing, and efficient resource management, we reduce unnecessary spending. You save on high internal staffing costs (salaries, training, recruitment) while gaining access to specialized, dedicated expertise only when needed.

Guaranteed uptime and operational stability

By relying on Pythian's 24/7/365 proactive monitoring and expert support, you minimize unplanned outages and performance degradation. This ensures maximum uptime for your critical applications, allowing your business to operate continuously and reliably without interruption, which directly supports revenue generation and customer satisfaction.

Accelerated innovation and strategic focus

Pythian takes over the complex, time-consuming burden of daily database maintenance (patching, backups, scaling). This frees your internal development and IT teams to reallocate their time to strategic, high-value initiatives—such as application development, digital transformation, and core business innovation—instead of routine operational tasks.

Enhanced security and regulatory compliance

We deliver a robust defense for your data through continuous security patching, configuration hardening, and proactive threat detection. Pythian helps your organization adhere to complex industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA), ensuring your sensitive data is protected and mitigating the risk of costly data breaches and compliance fines.

What is Pythian's database administration service onboarding process?

Pythian's DBAs will be managing your databases within four weeks

We go above and beyond our customers' expectations as their remote DBA service partner. Our structured four-week onboarding process is a collaborative effort designed to lay a solid foundation for effective, ongoing database administrative service and 24/7 support.

Optimize database performance

Pythian will conduct a thorough database health check assessment to evaluate your database performance, security, and configuration. Our teams of database administrators will optimize the performance of your databases for peak performance before we begin managing your systems. We will provide performance tuning recommendations and work with you to create a blueprint for future optimizations.

Our goal is to ensure your systems are always operating at peak performance—starting with performant operating systems.

Define clear service level agreements (SLA)

Together, we establish clear and transparent SLAs. We want to define system performance expectations and deliver DBA services that minimize downtime and ensure rapid response times if an issue occurs.

Set up database monitoring

As part of our database administrative services, we provide 24/7 database monitoring. We integrate our proprietary monitoring tools with your existing ecosystem, or leverage your preferred monitoring tools.

Our teams of DBAs align with your established ITIL processes, such as your ticketing systems and Change Advisory Board (CAB).

Handoff of database management

Following a comprehensive review, we seamlessly transition your database environments over to our team of database administrators. Pythian’s team of DBAs become an extension of your team. Our DBAs ensure your databases are managed, monitored and supported 24/7, 365 days of the year with proactive performance optimizations.

International bank partners with Pythian’s experts for 24x7 database support

When rapid growth threatened its vital SQL payments platform, this customer partnered with Pythian for 24/7 proactive support to ensure performance, security, and stability.

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HealthTech leader saves $700K/yr by partnering with Pythian for database administration services

Pythian supported a leading medical device company in modernizing its database infrastructure, improving operational efficiency and boosting reliability.

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SoundCloud used Pythian’s remote DBA service to unblock tech teams

SoundCloud utilized Pythian's on-demand remote DBA service to resolve tech challenges, unblocking their product teams and allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about database administration services

Database administration is the responsibility of managing, monitoring and supporting databases. The responsibility of database administrators is to manage the structure, access, manipulation, archiving, storage, integrity, etc. of company data.

Pythian delivers database administration services—providing customers with teams of remote database administrators who ensure 24/7 database management, monitoring and support.

Pythian offers a full-service approach that goes beyond basic DBA support. Pythian’s database administration services include; 24/7 database management and support to ensure systems are always being taken care of, proactive database performance optimizations to increase systems reliability, security and data availability, advanced database monitoring with rapid issue response, and on-going maintenance—providing customers with recommendations to help their business scale as data volumes increase.

Pythian has been delivering world-class database administration services for three decades. Pythian delivers a proactive approach to database administration services—ensuring database performance is continuously optimized, customers receive database monitoring reports, immediate response times and 24/7 database support.

Businesses can expect to optimize database performance, minimize business disruption, reduce downtime, achieve higher data availability, ensure databases are built to scale, and benefit from stronger database security, all while saving up to as much as 60% in operational costs when they choose Pythian as their partner for database administration services.

By partnering with Pythian, customers can cut operational costs by up to 60% with our remote database administration (DBA) services, when compared to hiring and training in-house database administrators. Pythian provides 24/7 database administration support, 365 days a year, with teams specializing in over 45 database, cloud, and data warehouse technologies.

Pythian’s database administration services support over 45+ technologies, including data platforms, warehouses, databases, and cloud environments. Pythian has teams of database administrators (DBA) who specialize in the database technologies our customers use including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, IBM DB2, etc.

Pythian has a structured four-week onboarding process that includes a thorough database health check, defining clear service level agreements (SLA), setting up database monitoring and enabling DBA access, and finally, a seamless handoff of database management to our team of database administrators.

What We Do

Database administration (DBA) services

Global leaders trust Pythian’s database administration service

Decrease in operational spending

Databases managed

Global customers

Pythian's database administration (DBA) services

Optimize database performance

Better database monitoring

Upgrade database version

Remote DBA services

Expert database support

Harvard Business Publishing saved over $800,000 a year with remote DBA services

Our database administrators (DBA) manage your data—no matter where it lives

Better database performance with Pythian's DBA services

Significant total cost of ownership (TCO) savings

Guaranteed uptime and operational stability

Accelerated innovation and strategic focus

Enhanced security and regulatory compliance

Pythian's DBAs will be managing your databases within four weeks

Optimize database performance

Define clear service level agreements (SLA)

Set up database monitoring

Handoff of database management

Save 60% in operational costs with Pythian's remote database administration service

Hear what our remote DBA service customers have to say about Pythian

International bank partners with Pythian’s experts for 24x7 database support

HealthTech leader saves $700K/yr by partnering with Pythian for database administration services

SoundCloud used Pythian’s remote DBA service to unblock tech teams

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about database administration services