Database Support Services

Maintain continuous uptime, eliminate performance latency, and protect your enterprise data with 24/7 support.

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3

Decades delivering database services

Global

Customer network, across all industries

94%

Net promoter score year-over-year (YoY)

How we work with you

Uncover hidden infrastructure bottlenecks before they crash your systems.

Receive a comprehensive audit that digs deep into your database setup, security configurations, and health metrics to spot hidden risks. You get a clear picture of what needs fixing so you can build a stable foundation.

Integrate database management seamlessly with your existing change control processes.

Establish clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for rapid response times, uptime, and recovery targets like RPO and RTO. Align directly with your internal ticketing tools, Change Advisory Board (CAB), and ITIL frameworks to drive immediate operational value.

Catch system glitches early to prevent reactive firefighting.

Implement real-time telemetry tools and custom threshold alerting to track CPU utilization, storage capacity, and query latency. Resolve minor system variances before they escalate into high-severity incidents.

Maintain peak database execution and lower operational expenses over time.

Execute routine patch management, index defragmentation, query optimization, and capacity planning. Offload routine maintenance and off-hours coverage so your internal engineering team can focus on strategic innovation.

Ensure 24/7 uptime with more reliable databases.

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HealthTech leader saves $700K/yr by leaning on Pythian's database support services.

Pythian's database support specialists helped a global medical device leader modernize its complex database environment, standardize operations, improve monitoring, and deliver enhanced system performance and reliability.

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HealthTech leader saves $700K/yr by leaning into Pythian's database support services.

Access specialized database expertise without the overhead and regain your team's time and focus.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Database Support Services

What is a Database Support Service?

A Database Support Service delivers expert database administration (DBA), proactive 24/7 monitoring, health assessments, performance tuning, and patch management. It ensures your relational and NoSQL environments maintain high availability, environment security, and optimal execution speeds.

What's included in database support services?

Pythian’s database support services include: 

  • 24/7 database support: Pythian ensures our customers' systems are always being managed and performance is maintained—no matter what day or time it is.
  • Proactive database performance optimizations: Pythian is continuously improving database performance to increase systems reliability, security and data availability.
  • Advanced database monitoring tools: Pythian runs daily, weekly, and monthly health checks to evaluate database performance.
  • Immediate issue response times: Pythian delivers lightning speed response times—ensuring if an issue occurs, our database support specialists are immediately responding to resolve the issue before it impacts our customer’s business.
Why is Pythian the best choice for database support services?

Pythian has been delivering world-class database support services for 3 decades. Pythian delivers a proactive approach to database support 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 support services. 

What database platforms does Pythian support?

Pythian supports more than 45 database engines across relational, NoSQL, cloud-native, and data warehouse platforms. Core engines include Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner, and Snowflake.

How does outsourced database support help reduce operational costs?

Outsourcing database administration eliminates the high recruitment, training, and retention costs required to maintain an internal 24/7/365 DBA team. Organizations secure tier-3 expert coverage on demand, paying only for the specific tier of service required.

How does proactive 24/7 database monitoring prevent downtime?

Telemetry tools continuously monitor core performance metrics—including CPU utilization, query execution latency, index fragmentation, and storage growth. Identifying performance anomalies early allows engineers to resolve system issues before they cause service disruptions.

Can Pythian work alongside our existing in-house IT team?

Yes. Pythian’s co-managed database support model integrates into your existing ticketing systems, ITIL processes, and Change Advisory Board (CAB). We offload routine maintenance, off-hours coverage, and complex tuning projects so your internal engineers can focus on strategic initiatives.

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