MinervaDB Partner Network

MinervaDB Partner Network

Sell the database expertise your customers keep asking for. A senior-only, vendor-neutral database engineering bench behind your business — consulting, 24×7 support, remote DBA, and managed services — under your customer relationship, with recurring economics that renew year after year. The MinervaDB database partner program is built for Systems Integrators, ISVs and SaaS companies, Value-Added Distributors, and Value-Added Resellers that need a database tier they can put their name behind.

900+
enterprises served globally
13+
database engines under one roof
24×7
follow-the-sun senior coverage
48–72h
audit findings turnaround
MinervaDB database partner program: partner-owned relationship, MinervaDB-delivered consulting, 24×7 support, remote DBA and managed services

Why partner with MinervaDB

Win deals you currently walk past

Database workstreams stall or kill larger programs. A performance crisis surfaces mid-migration, an Oracle exit stalls on PL/SQL conversion, an HA redesign fails its first failover drill, a warehouse bill blows past forecast. These are the moments where a program either gets a credible answer or loses the quarter. MinervaDB principals scope, de-risk, and deliver the database tier while you own the program, the customer, and the commercial relationship. The database workstream becomes a reason to win the deal rather than a reason to qualify out.

Earn recurring, not one-off

Partners earn on annual subscriptions — 24×7 consultative support, remote DBA, and managed services — that renew above 90% year over year. The commission line compounds with retention: a subscription sold in year one is still paying in year three, and each renewal is an opportunity to attach additional engines, environments, or coverage tiers. Project work is the entry point; the subscription is the business.

Keep the account — guaranteed by contract

Account protection is written into the database partner program agreement, not left to goodwill. No cross-selling into partner-registered accounts without written consent. No subcontracting of the partner's brand or relationship to a third party. Mutual non-solicitation of personnel. Deal registration is honored for the full protection window of your tier, and disputes are resolved on the registration record, not on who spoke to the customer last.

The delivery standard your customers get

Every engagement sold through the database partner program — audit, incident, migration, or steady-state operations — is delivered to the same method. Named senior engineers only; there is no L1 ticket wall between your customer and the person who will fix the problem. Findings are evidence-first and cited to telemetry: the wait interface, AWR/ASH, pg_stat_statements, Query Store, system.query_log and the relevant system tables for the engine in question. Findings are prioritized P0/P1/P2 with explicit ESCALATE flags where a risk requires a decision above the engineering level. Each finding follows observation → interpretation → recommendation, and every recommendation carries impact, risk, and a rollback path before anyone touches a running system.

Audits run against read-only telemetry with monitoring-grade access. No write access, no application data. Your customer's security team can approve the access model in one review, and the findings arrive within 48–72 hours of telemetry collection.

MinervaDB engagement method flow Five stages left to right: read-only telemetry collection, baseline, root cause, prioritized findings, and fix with impact, risk and rollback. Each arrow is labeled with what is handed forward. Telemetryread-only, monitoring-grade Baselineworkload & capacity profile Root causewaits, plans, contention FindingsP0 / P1 / P2 + ESCALATE Fiximpact, risk & rollback metrics deviations evidence decision Observation → interpretation → recommendation, cited to the engine's own telemetry

Four partnership tracks

The database partner program runs on four tracks. Each track maps to a distinct commercial model and a distinct set of technical deliverables. Resale margins and referral fees escalate by tier and are disclosed in the Partner Program Guide on application.

Systems Integrators — Services Alliance

An embedded database workstream inside your programs, contracted as a subcontract or a tri-party agreement. The migration factory covers heterogeneous migrations with schema and PL/SQL conversion, CDC/replication-based near-zero-downtime cutovers, and a documented rollback for every cutover window. Architecture validation includes RPO/RTO verification against a rehearsed failover before go-live, not a whiteboard assertion. Joint bid support on the database sections of RFPs and SOWs. After the program closes, the environment converts to managed services with partner economics on the subscription for as long as it renews.

ISVs & SaaS — Embedded Backline

A 24×7 backline for the databases inside your product, with pageable escalation SLAs your on-call engineers can rely on at 03:00. Performance engineering that protects gross margin: query and schema optimization, and capacity architecture planned ahead of the sales forecast rather than after the outage. Multi-tenant isolation and noisy-neighbor management across shared clusters. A compliance pack — documented operational model and escalation architecture — presentable in your own customers' security reviews. A white-label option is available where the backline must appear under your brand.

Value-Added Distributors — Territory Distribution

Distribution rights for the subscription catalog in defined territories or verticals, with second-tier reseller recruitment and management run on our framework. A wholesale rate card with volume tiers, a deal-registration hub for your reseller base, and territory enablement with localized campaign kits. Quarterly business reviews on pipeline, attach rate, and renewal health.

Value-Added Resellers — Resale & Referral

Resell annual subscriptions or refer per deal. The audit-attach motion is the fastest entry: a fixed-scope database audit attached to any infrastructure, cloud, or security deal, with findings in 48–72 hours — a low-friction way to open a database conversation in an account you already own. Campaign kits cover PostgreSQL upgrade readiness, Oracle estate and licensing review, cloud database cost governance, and SQL Server modernization. Deal registration protection applies from the first registered opportunity. Where the customer has committed cloud spend, subscriptions can close as AWS Marketplace private offers or Azure Marketplace private offers against that commitment.

Four MinervaDB partnership tracks radiating from the senior engineering bench A central node labeled MinervaDB Senior Bench connects to four boxes: Systems Integrators (services alliance, subcontract or tri-party), ISVs and SaaS (embedded backline, white-label option), Value-Added Distributors (territory distribution, wholesale rate card), and Value-Added Resellers (resale and referral, deal registration). subcontract / tri-party backline SLA wholesale catalog resale / referral MinervaDB Senior Bench consulting · 24×7 support · remote DBA managed services · 13+ engines Systems Integrators Audience: program owners, migration & cloud practices Model: Services Alliance — subcontract, then subscription ISVs & SaaS Audience: product engineering & platform teams Model: Embedded Backline — 24×7 SLA, white-label Value-Added Distributors Audience: territory & vertical distribution networks Model: Territory Distribution — wholesale rate card Value-Added Resellers Audience: infrastructure, cloud & security resellers Model: Resale & Referral — audit-attach, deal registration

Database partner program tiers

The database partner program has three tiers — Registered, Select, Premier — with benefits that escalate with demonstrated pipeline and delivery collaboration. Tier progression criteria and the commercial schedule are set out in the Partner Program Guide.

Registered is the entry tier for any approved partner: partner portal access, a 90-day deal-registration protection window, listing on the MinervaDB partner directory, and the standard campaign kits. Select extends the protection window to 120 days, unlocks market development funds for co-branded campaigns and events, adds priority scheduling for pre-sales scoping calls, and provides quarterly pipeline reviews. Premier carries a 180-day protection window, a named partner manager, formal quarterly business reviews, joint campaign planning with shared targets, early access to new service lines, and first call on joint bid support for strategic pursuits. Co-marketing moves from directory listings at Registered to joint campaigns and co-hosted customer briefings at Premier.

How onboarding works

First registered deal inside 90 days — that's the plan we build together. Onboarding into the database partner program is a 30/60/90 sequence with a named owner on both sides.

Days 1–30, Onboard: partner agreement executed, portal access provisioned, sales foundation session for your account teams, brand and campaign kits delivered. Days 31–60, Activate: campaign kit localized to your territory and vertical, technical overview for your solution engineers covering the audit method and the engagement model, joint account mapping against your installed base. Days 61–90, Produce: first registered opportunity, first co-hosted customer conversation, and a tier-progression plan with the pipeline targets that move you to Select.

MinervaDB partner onboarding timeline, days 1 to 90 Three phases left to right: Onboard in days 1 to 30, Activate in days 31 to 60, Produce in days 61 to 90, each with milestones listed beneath. The outcome is a first registered deal inside 90 days. day 30 day 60 OnboardDays 1–30 ActivateDays 31–60 ProduceDays 61–90 Agreement executedPortal accessSales foundation sessionBrand & campaign kits Campaign kit localizedTechnical overview for SEsJoint account mapping First registered opportunityFirst co-hosted customer conversationTier-progression plan Outcome: first registered deal inside 90 days

Platform coverage

One database partner program agreement covers the full engine roster. Partners do not need a separate vendor relationship for each database in a customer estate.

SQL / RDBMS: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Oracle Exadata, IBM Db2 (LUW & z/OS).
NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, Milvus.
Distributed SQL: CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, TiDB, Spanner.
Analytics: ClickHouse (delivered via ChistaDATA), SAP HANA, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Trino, Kafka.
Cloud DBaaS: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Azure SQL, MongoDB Atlas, MySQL HeatWave.

Engine-specific service detail is on the full-stack database infrastructure page and the database consulting page.

Apply to the Partner Network

Complete the database partner program application below. Applications are reviewed by a partner manager within two business days; approved applicants receive the Partner Program Guide, the commercial schedule for their track, and a proposed 30/60/90 onboarding plan.

MinervaDB delivers all engagements directly — partner delivery subcontracting is not permitted, which is precisely why your customers renew.