MinervaDB Team Profile – WebScale Database Infrastructure Operations Experts
Our consultants are seasoned professionals in Database Systems internals, transaction processing systems, SQL engineering, optimal indexing, scale-out / replication topologies, Partitioning (Vertical & Horizontal), database compression techniques / algorithms, data security / privacy / audits, capacity planning / sizing, building self-healing database infrastructure operations, upgrades / migrations, database reliability engineering services and building Data Ops. for web-scale.
☛ MinervaDB Technical Expertise
- MySQL – MySQL (GA and Enterprise) ; InnoDB ; MySQL NDB Cluster ; InnoDB Cluster ; MySQL performance monitoring and trending.
- MariaDB – MariaDB Server ; MariaDB Backup ; MariaDB MaxScale ; MariaDB ColumnStore ; MariaDB Spider.
- Percona Server – Percona toolkit ; XtraBackup ; Percona XtraDB Cluster ; TokuDB.
- Building and troubleshooting web-scale database infrastructure operations using MyRocks / RocksDB.
- InnoDB / XtraDB – Performance optimization ; troubleshooting and data recovery services.
- Performance benchmarking – Measure response time, throughput and recommendations.
- Capacity planning and sizing – Building infrastructure for performance, scalability and reliability for database operations proactively.
- Performance health check, diagnostics and forensics – Monitor your database performance 24*7 and Proactively troubleshoot.
- Performance optimization and tuning – High performance MySQL, Maximum reliability of your database infrastructure operations.
- Designing optimal schema (logical and physical) – Size it right first time and build an optimal data lifecycle management system.
- SQL performance tuning – Measure SQL performance by response time and conservative SQL engineering practices.
- Disk I/O tuning – Distribute disk operations optimally across the storage layer and build archiving plan early / proactively.
- High availability and site reliability engineering – Self healing database infrastructure operations, auto-failover and cross-DC availability services.
- Galera Cluster operations and troubleshooting.
- Continuent Tungsten operations and troubleshooting.
- MySQL load balancing solutions using HAProxy, ProxySQL, MySQL Router.
- Data recovery services – Building robust disaster recovery solutions, zero data loss systems and multi-location backup retention.
- Sharding and horizontal partitioning solutions – Building scalable database infrastructure for planet-scale internet properties.
- Database clustering solutions – Grow your MySQL infrastructure horizontally for performance, scalability and availability.
- Scale-out and replication – Building maximum availability database infrastructure operations.
- Database security – Database firewall, transaction audit and secured data operations.
- Database upgrades and migration – Seamless upgrades and migration of database infrastructure on zero downtime.
- ClickHouse – ClickHouse consulting, support and training.
- PostgreSQL Consulting, Support and RemoteDBA Services.
- Cloud DBA Services – IaaS and DBaaS including: Oracle Cloud, Google CloudSQL, Amazon Aurora, AWS RDS®, EC2®, Microsoft Azure® and Rackspace® Cloud.
☛ Technology focus – Vendor neutral and independent
| Technology Focus | Tools and Technologies |
|---|---|
| Linux | Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux. |
| MySQL | MySQL GA, MySQL Enterprise, InnoDB, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Cluster CGE, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Utilities, MySQL Enterprise Audit, MySQL Enterprise Firewall and MySQL Router. |
| Percona | Percona Server for MySQL, XtraDB, TokuDB, RocksDB, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraBackup and PMM(Percona Monitoring & Management). |
| MariaDB | MariaDB Server, RocksDB, MariaDB Galera Cluster, MariaDB Backup, MariaDB MaxScale and MariaDB ColumnStore. |
| PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL Performance Benchmarking, Capacity Planning / Sizing, PostgreSQL Performance Optimization, PostgreSQL High Availability / Database Reliability Engineering, PostgreSQL Upgrades / Migration and PostgreSQL Security |
| Cloud DBA Services | IaaS and DBaaS including: Oracle Cloud, Google CloudSQL, Amazon Aurora, AWS RDS®, EC2®, Microsoft Azure® and Rackspace® Cloud |
| Performance Monitoring and Trending Platforms | MySQL Enterprise Monitor, Icinga, Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana. |
| High Availability, Scale-Out, Replication and Load Balancer | MySQL Group Replication, MySQL Cluster CGE, InnoDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB MaxScale, Continuent Tungsten Replicator, MHA (Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL), HAProxy, ProxySQL, MySQL Router and Vitess. |
| Columnar Database Systems | ClickHouse, MariaDB ColumnStore |
| DevOps. and Automation | Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ganglia, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Consul, JIRA, Graylog and Grafana. |
At MinervaDB, We are committed to building and managing optimal, scalable, highly reliable and secured Database Infrastructure Operations for our customers globally.
Shiv Iyer (Founder and Principal of MinervaDB Inc.)
☛ Partial list of customers ( from approximately 500 globally) – What we did for them ?
- Fox Media – MySQL Consultative Support and Managed Remote DBA
- Twitch – MySQL Consultative Support
- Home Depot – MySQL Consultative Support
- Comcast Media Networks – MariaDB Consultative Support
- Viacom – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA
- APC – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Prada – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Tiffany & Co – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Tiffany & Co – ClickHouse Consultative Support
- Strabag – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Danone – MySQL Consultative Support
- Asahi – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Castel Group – MySQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA Services
- Shell Petroleum – PostgreSQL Consultative Support
- GoDaddy – MySQL Consulting and Enterprise-Class Support
- Grab – MySQL Consulting and Professional Services
- DataCloud – MySQL Consulting and Professional Services
- Garmin – ClickHouse Consulting and Enterprise-Class Support
- ClassPlus – Amazon RDS Support and Managed DBA Services
- ClassPlus – ClickHouse Enterprise-Class Support
- MPL – PostgreSQL Consulting and Managed DBA Services
- WrestleMania – MySQL Consultative Support
- Kirin – PostgreSQL Consultative Support
- Blue Dart – ClickHouse Consulting / Professional Services and Enterprise-Class Consultative Support
- LibLynx – MySQL Consulting and Managed Remote DBA Services
- SriLankan Airlines – PostgreSQL Consultative Support
- Callaway Golf – MySQL Consultative Support
- YONEX – MySQL Consultative Support
- BharatPe – MySQL and ClickHouse Consultative Support
- Dean Food Group – MySQL Remote DBA and Consultative Support
- Flip.id – MySQL Consultative Support
- Fitbit – MySQL Consulting and Support
- Sprint Global – PostgreSQL Enterprise-Class Consultative Support
- Sony – PostgreSQL Consultative Support and Managed Remote DBA Services
- Chevrolet – PostgreSQL Remote DBA Services and Enterprise Support
- BankBazaar– MariaDB consultative support and Remote DBA services
- MIX– MySQL Consulting and Professional Services
- AOL– Performance benchmarking, capacity planning & sizing, Remote DBA Services and Site Reliability Engineering Services
- eBay– Remote DBA services, MySQL DevOps. & automation, on-call DBA Support (24*7) and MySQL upgrades / migration
- Forbes.com– Remote DBA services, architecting & building highly available MySQL infrastructure operations and consulting & professional services for MySQL
- National Geographic– MySQL Consulting & Professional services, performance audit & optimization and MySQL upgrades
- Apigee– PostgreSQL Support and Remote DBA Services
- PayPal– MySQL Consulting & Professional Services, MySQL performance audit & recommendations and MySQL SRE
- Yahoo– MySQL Consulting & Professional services, on-call DBA Services and MySQL Emergency Support
- The New York Times Company – MySQL Consultative Support and Remote DBA
- Priceline.com – Consulting & Professional Services for MySQL & Percona Server for MySQL, Performance optimization & tuning and MySQL SRE
- Freshdesk – MySQL performance audit & recommendation, MySQL scale-out & replication solutions and MySQL Consultancy
- OLA – MySQL Consultative Support
- Flipkart – MySQL Consulting Services and MySQL Consultative Support
- Paytm– MySQL Consultative Support
- PetSmart– MySQL Consulting Services and MySQL Consultative Support
- CallForAmerica – MySQL Consultative Support
- SunTec Business Solutions – MariaDB Consulting and Support
- ESPN – Architected & deployed MySQL high availability solution and MySQL Consulting & Professional Services
- Mashable – MySQL Consulting Services and Remote DBA Services
- Proteans – MySQL performance audit & optimization and MySQL Consulting & Professional Services
- Symphony Software – MySQL performance audit & recommendations, custom MySQL sharding solution and MySQL upgrades / migration
- Yatra – MySQL Consultative Support
- Justdial– MySQL Consultative Support
- Victoria’s Secret– MySQL performance audit & recommendations and MySQL replication solutions
- Airpush– MySQL Remote DBA Services and MySQL Consultancy
- Virsec – Remote DBA services and Consulting & Professional Services
- Go-Jek – Deployed MySQL high availability solution using Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL emergency support, performance optimization and Consultative Support
- Midtrans – 24*7 MySQL Remote DBA Services, MySQL high availability & fault tolerance solution using Percona XtraDB Cluster & ProxySQL and MySQL Consultative Support
- Bukalapak– MySQL Consultative Support
- Sequoia Capital – MySQL Professional Services, Remote DBA Services & Consultative Support for Sequoia APAC and Southeast Asia portfolio companies
- Housing.com – Consultative support and PostgreSQL Consulting Services
- Electronic Arts – MySQL Consulting Services addressing performance and scalability
- Adyen – MySQL Consulting and Professional Services
- Pinterest – MySQL Consulting & Professional services addressing performance and scalability
- Thomson Reuters Corporation – PostgreSQL Remote DBA Managed Services
☛ Customer testimonials
” Shiv is a expert in MySQL performance, He can fine tune MySQL performance at instance, application and infrastructure level in a shortest duration, I would love to hire him again. “
David Hutton
Head of IT operations
National Geographic
” If it’s about MySQL performance and scalability, I will first call Shiv and He has helped us several times in building optimal, scalable and highly available MySQL infrastructure operations.“
Mark Gray
IT Manager
Nike Technologies
” MinervaDB manages our entire PostgreSQL Database Infrastructure Operations in Chevrolet. They are highly responsive and customer success driven, We strongly recommend MinervaDB for Enterprise-Class Database Infrastructure Operations Support and Remote DBA Services. “
Bill Burke
Infrastructure Operations Manager
Chevrolet
” If you are building an highly reliable MySQL ecosystem, Hiring Shiv and his team will simplify your project. He is a guru to build an highly available and fault tolerant web property. “
Kevin Thomson
Business Head – Media properties
AOL
” Shiv and his team built an custom MySQL high availability solution for us across data centers which enabled 24*7*365 availability of our business services. His Soultions are non vendor biased and cost efficient. “
Keshav Patel
Group Manager – IT
Lastminute.com
” Thinking about outsourcing your DBA function ? Shiv is the guy who you should be talking to, He can build an highly reliable 24*7 remote DBA team for an fraction of cost to hiring a Sr. level resident DBA. “
Brian Lewis
Lead Systems Engineer
Priceline.com
” The shortest notice emergency DBA support provider I have ever worked with, They are highly responsive and professional. If we suspect something going wrong with our database systems, The immediate action item is contact Shiv and his team. “
Sherly Williams
Manager -Business Continuity
GAP Inc.
” We have contracted MinervaDB for 24*7 remote DBA services, They delivered MySQL maximum reliability and availability solutions ahead of the project schedule using 100% open source and free tools, saving considerably our IT budget. “
Simon Matthew
IT Manager – Media & Entertainment
Vodafone PLC
” Our database infrastructure operations was highly unreliable till we engaged Shiv Iyer and his globally distributed team of consultants, Now we have 24*7 access to expert DBA(s) for a fraction of cost to hiring a resident full-time DBA. “
Kerry Jones
Head – IT Operations
The BestBuy Inc
” Very professional 24*7 DBA Ops. team ! They built highly reliable and fault tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure Operations for Honda customer connect internet properties cost efficiently. “
Rikuto Takashi
GM – IT Operations
Honda
☛ MinervaDB contacts – Sales & General Inquiries
| Business Function | Contact |
|---|---|
| ☎ CONTACT GLOBAL SALES (24*7) | 📞 (844) 588-7287 (USA) 📞 (415) 212-6625 (USA) 📞 (778) 770-5251 (Canada) |
| ☎ TOLL FREE PHONE (24*7) | 📞 (844) 588-7287 |
| 🚩 MINERVADB FAX | +1 (209) 314-2364 |
| 📨 MinervaDB Email - General / Sales / Consulting | contact@minervadb.com |
| 📨 MinervaDB Email - Support | support@minervadb.com |
| 📨 MinervaDB Email -Remote DBA | remotedba@minervadb.com |
| 📨 Shiv Iyer Email - Founder and Principal | shiv@minervadb.com |
| 🏠 CORPORATE ADDRESS: CALIFORNIA | MinervaDB Inc. 440 N BARRANCA AVE #9718 COVINA, CA 91723 |
| 🏠 CORPORATE ADDRESS: DELAWARE | MinervaDB Inc., PO Box 2093 PHILADELPHIA PIKE #3339 CLAYMONT, DE 19703 |
| 🏠 CORPORATE ADDRESS: HOUSTON | MinervaDB Inc., 1321 Upland Dr. PMB 19322, Houston, TX, 77043, US |
