Database Performance Tuning

Slow queries rarely get fixed; they get worked around. Someone adds an index in production, waits, and hopes.

This engagement takes up to five queries or performance issues you've already identified, finds the actual root cause, and tests every proposed fix in your environment before it goes anywhere near production. You get the results we measured, not a list of theories. Pick your database below.

Starting from $11,400

Scope your tuning engagement

MYSQL PERFORMANCE TUNING

You already know which queries are hurting; you just need someone who's tuned InnoDB under production load to fix them. This isn't a broad health review; it's a focused engagement on the specific queries or performance issues you've identified.

We analyze up to 5 queries or issues, test every recommendation in a representative environment, and hand you results, not theory.

DELIVERABLES

  • Review of up to 5 queries or identified performance issues you specify at kickoff
  • Analysis of the existing server, InnoDB buffer pool configuration, and performance metrics via Percona Monitoring and Management
  • Review of index usage and query execution plans for each identified query
  • Testing of proposed changes in your provided test environment, replicating your issue, before recommending a fix
  • Document detailing suggested changes and the results actually achieved in testing
  • Production review of recommended changes with your points of contact, plus a findings and recommendations report
  • Optional: assistance implementing the recommendations in production during a scheduled time

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for a single standalone MySQL server or source-replica pair, 1–5 servers. Teams running MySQL synchronous clusters (Group Replication, InnoDB Cluster) get a scoped single-node review under this same engagement. Larger or more complex environments, 6+ servers, multiple clusters, mixed topologies, should be scoped under our full consulting audit instead of the fixed-fee engagement.

OUTCOME

Tested, specific fixes for the queries and configuration issues you already flagged, not a generic tuning checklist. This engagement doesn't guarantee a specific performance improvement, but every recommendation is verified against your workload before it reaches your findings report.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

1–5 specific queries or performance issues you can name at kickoff

Prerequisites

Production access and a representative test environment available from day one

YOU RECEIVE

Suggested changes documented with the results achieved in testing, plus a findings and recommendations report

6+ ISSUES?

Or don't know which queries are the problem? Talk to us about the full Performance Tuning consulting engagement

MARIADB PERFORMANCE TUNING

You already know which queries are hurting; you just need someone who's tuned the storage engine under production load to fix them. This isn't a broad health review; it's a focused engagement on the specific queries or performance issues you've identified.

We analyze up to 5 queries or issues, test every recommendation in a representative environment, and hand you results, not theory.

DELIVERABLES

  • Review of up to 5 queries or identified performance issues you specify at kickoff
  • Analysis of the existing server, InnoDB buffer pool configuration, and performance metrics via Percona Monitoring and Management
  • Review of index usage and query execution plans for each identified query
  • Testing of proposed changes in your provided test environment, replicating your issue, before recommending a fix
  • Document detailing suggested changes and the results actually achieved in testing
  • Production review of recommended changes with your points of contact, plus a findings and recommendations report
  • Optional: assistance in implementing the recommendations in production during a scheduled time

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to 1–5 specific queries or performance issues you can name at kickoff. If you're dealing with 6 or more distinct issues, or you don't yet know which queries are the problem, talk to us about our full Performance Tuning consulting engagement instead. This engagement assumes that production access and a representative test environment are both available from day one.

OUTCOME

Tested, specific fixes for the queries and configuration issues you already flagged, not a generic tuning checklist. This engagement doesn't guarantee a specific performance improvement, but every recommendation is verified against your workload before it reaches your findings report.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

1–5 specific queries or performance issues you can name at kickoff

Prerequisites

Production access and representative multi-node test cluster available from day one

YOU RECEIVE

Suggested changes documented with the results achieved in testing, plus a findings and recommendations report

Cluster-wide problem?

Broader investigations are scoped under the full consulting engagement

POSTGRESQL PERFORMANCE TUNING

Slow PostgreSQL queries are usually a symptom of something else: a missing index, stale statistics, or autovacuum falling behind on a hot table. This engagement targets up to 5 specific queries or issues you've already identified, and gets to the actual root cause.

We use pg_stat_statements data and query plans to diagnose, test proposed fixes in your environment, and verify results before they reach your findings report.

DELIVERABLES

  • Review of up to 5 queries or identified performance issues, using pg_stat_statements and EXPLAIN plan analysis
  • Analysis of autovacuum behavior, server configuration, and performance metrics via Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  • Review of the table and index statistics accuracy for each identified query
  • Testing of proposed changes in your provided test environment
  • Document detailing suggested changes and results achieved in testing
  • Production review of recommended changes with your points of contact, plus a findings and recommendations report
  • Optional: assistance in implementing recommendations in production during a scheduled time

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to 1–5 specific queries or issues you can name at kickoff. If performance across the whole schema is the concern rather than specific queries, our Health Audit is the better starting point. This engagement assumes that production access and a representative test environment are both available from day one.

OUTCOME

Tested fixes for the queries you flagged, with the actual root cause identified, not just an index suggestion pulled from a query plan. You'll know whether the fix is the query, the statistics, or the vacuum settings behind it, and you'll have test results showing the fix actually worked before it goes anywhere near production.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

1–5 specific queries or performance issues you can name at kickoff

Prerequisites

Production access and a representative test environment available from day one

YOU RECEIVE

Suggested changes documented with the results achieved in testing, plus a findings and recommendations report

Schema-wide bloat?

If autovacuum or bloat across the whole schema is the concern, the Health Audit is the better starting point

MONGODB PERFORMANCE TUNING

Slow MongoDB queries are frequently an indexing or shard key problem wearing a performance costume. This engagement targets up to 5 specific queries or issues you've already identified, and tests every fix in your environment before it goes to production.

We analyze index usage and shard key distribution where applicable, test proposed changes, and verify results before they reach your findings report.

DELIVERABLES

  • Review of up to 5 queries or identified performance issues you specify at kickoff
  • Analysis of index usage, query plan (explain output), shard key distribution where applicable, and performance metrics via Percona Monitoring and Management
  • Review of aggregation pipeline stages for queries that use them, flagging stages that can't use an index
  • Testing of proposed changes in your provided test environment
  • Document detailing suggested changes and results achieved in testing
  • Production review of recommended changes with your points of contact, plus a findings and recommendations report
  • Optional: assistance in implementing recommendations in production during a scheduled time

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to 1–5 specific queries or issues you can name at kickoff. If the concern is broader, replica set or sharded cluster health generally, our Health Audit is the better fit. This engagement assumes that production access and a representative test environment are both available from day one.

OUTCOME

Verified fixes for the queries you flagged, with any indexing or sharding root cause called out explicitly, not a generic 'add an index' recommendation without knowing whether the index will actually get used. Where aggregation pipelines are involved, you'll know which stages are forcing a collection scan and why.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

1–5 specific queries or performance issues you can name at kickoff

Prerequisites

Production access and a representative test environment available from day one

YOU RECEIVE

Suggested changes documented with the results achieved in testing, plus a findings and recommendations report

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

General replica set or sharded cluster health is a better fit for the Health Audit

VALKEY / REDIS PERFORMANCE TUNING

Latency spikes in Redis or Valkey are usually about data structure choice or persistence overhead , not the command itself. A command that's fast in isolation can still cause latency spikes if it's colliding with an AOF rewrite or a poorly sized eviction policy.

This engagement targets up to 5 specific issues you've already identified, and tests every fix in your environment before it goes to production.

DELIVERABLES

  • Review of up to 5 identified performance issues or command patterns you specify at kickoff
  • Analysis of data structure usage, eviction policy, persistence configuration (RDB/AOF), and metrics via PMM
  • Review of command complexity (O(N) operations on large collections) contributing to latency
  • Testing of proposed changes in your provided test environment
  • Document detailing suggested changes and results achieved in testing
  • Production review of recommended changes with your points of contact, plus a findings and recommendations report
  • Optional: assistance in implementing recommendations in production during a scheduled time

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to 1–5 specific performance issues you can name at kickoff. If you don't yet know what's causing the latency, our Health Audit is a better starting point. This engagement assumes that production access and a representative test environment are both available from day one.

OUTCOME

Specific, tested fixes for the latency or memory issues you flagged, not a generic 'use hashes instead of strings' writeup that ignores what's actually driving your latency. You'll know whether the spike is a data structure choice, a persistence operation colliding with your traffic, or a command that's O(N) on a collection that's grown past what it was designed for.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

1–5 specific performance issues you can name at kickoff

Prerequisites

Production access and a representative test environment available from day one

YOU RECEIVE

Suggested changes documented with the results achieved in testing, plus a findings and recommendations report

Unknown cause?

If you don't yet know what's driving the latency, start with the Health Audit

FAQ’s

Real Answers. No Corporate Doublespeak.

Up to five specific queries or performance issues that you name at kickoff. This is a focused engagement, not a broad review: we analyze each issue, test proposed changes in your test environment, and document what actually improved. If you're carrying six or more distinct issues, our full Performance Tuning consulting engagement is the right shape instead.

Not yet. This engagement works best when you can point at the problem. If you can't, start with the Health Audit; it surfaces the top consumers by execution time and gives you the prioritized list, and then this engagement takes the fixes from there.

Two things from day one: production access and a representative test environment. For Galera clusters that means a representative multi-node test cluster, because write-set replication behavior can't be reproduced on a single node. We'll also need named points of contact for the production review at the end.

Because we test them before you see them. We replicate your issue in the test environment, apply the proposed change, and record the results achieved; the findings report only contains recommendations that were verified against your workload. What we don't do is guarantee a specific performance number up front. Nobody honestly can, and we'd rather show you measured results than promise a percentage.

That's available as an option: implementation assistance in production during a scheduled time. By default the engagement ends with a production review of the recommended changes alongside your team, plus the findings and recommendations report, and your team applies the changes on its own schedule.

Then that's what the report says. Slow queries are often a symptom: stale statistics, autovacuum falling behind, flow control reacting to write contention, an eviction policy fighting your working set. The report separates query-level fixes from configuration-level ones, so your team knows exactly which lever to pull.
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