Your Databases Are Too Important
to Leave to One Overworked DBA
JusDB is a fractional Database Reliability Engineering team. You get specialists across 12+ database engines, 24/7 coverage, and cost optimization that pays for itself — without hiring a single person.
Databases We Manage
Sound Familiar?
These are the problems we hear from every engineering team that calls us. If even two apply to you, your databases need professional ownership.
Nobody owns the database
Databases run in production but no one is truly responsible. Schema changes are scary, upgrades are overdue, and the last backup was tested… never.
3 AM pages fall on whoever's unlucky
Your on-call rotation isn't a database team — it's whoever drew the short straw. The engineer debugging replication at 2 AM is supposed to ship features tomorrow.
AWS bills nobody has audited
Oversized RDS instances, idle replicas, no Reserved Instance planning. Cloud database spend grows 20% year-over-year with zero review.
MySQL is two versions behind
You know you should upgrade. Security patches are pending. But the last upgrade attempt caused a 4-hour outage. So it waits.
No tested failover
You have a replica. You've never actually failed over to it. If your primary dies tonight, your recovery plan is hope and prayer.
Queries getting slower, nobody investigating
That dashboard went from 200ms to 3 seconds. Data grew, indexes didn't. Nobody has checked the slow query log in months.
Why JusDB, Specifically
Five things that make us different from every other option you're considering.
Database specialists, not generalists
Most DevOps and SRE firms treat databases as one of fifty things they manage. JusDB does one thing and does it deeply — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, StarRocks, ClickHouse, across 1000+ instances. This specialization means faster diagnosis, better architecture decisions, and fewer surprises.
A fractional DBRE team, not a single hire
When you hire one DBA, you get one person's knowledge, one person's availability, and a single point of failure. With JusDB you get a team — collective expertise across 12+ engines, 24/7 coverage without leave gaps, and no attrition risk. You're not hiring a person, you're plugging into a capability.
Battle-tested across real Indian scale
Logistics fleet tracking, fintech transactions, cross-border banking — these aren't toy setups. We've managed fleets of 50-500+ instances, terabytes of production data, and real-time CDC pipelines under production pressure. We've seen the failure modes that textbooks don't cover.
We pay for ourselves
We reduce your cloud database spend — 60% average savings through right-sizing, reserved instance planning, idle replica cleanup, and query optimization. The audit alone typically finds savings that exceed our annual engagement fee.
No ramp-up time
A new DBA hire takes 2-3 months to understand your systems, your schema, your replication topology. JusDB has a structured onboarding methodology and we're productive within the first week. By week two, we've already found cost savings and performance fixes.
What You Actually Get
Not a feature list. Outcomes.
You stop getting paged at 3 AM
Our on-call team takes your database alerts. When replication breaks at 2 AM, we fix it while your engineers sleep. You wake up to an incident report, not a crisis.
Your database costs drop within 30 days
We audit your fleet in the first week. By day 30, we've right-sized instances, killed idle replicas, and planned reserved capacity. Average savings: 60%.
Your next migration happens without downtime
MySQL 5.7 to 8.0, PostgreSQL major upgrades, on-prem to cloud — we've done hundreds. Zero-downtime is not a marketing claim, it's our standard.
You ship product instead of fighting database fires
Your engineering team gets their weekends back. Instead of debugging replication lag, they build the features your customers are waiting for.
Every database gets an SLO and an owner
We define SLOs for query latency, availability, and replication lag. We track error budgets. Every database has clear ownership and measurable health.
You get a team, not a ticket queue
Dedicated engineers who know your schema, your topology, your business context. Not a rotating cast of support agents reading a runbook for the first time.
Results, Not Promises
Real engagements. Real numbers.
58 MySQL instances across 3 AWS regions. No DBA. Unpatched, unmonitored, 30% of spend on idle replicas.
Fleet audit → right-sized 22 instances → consolidated 8 idle replicas → ProxySQL → SLO alerting
PostgreSQL hitting 4-second queries during peak. Engineering spending 40% of sprint on database fires.
Query audit → index optimization → PgBouncer → read replica routing → CDC offload for analytics
PostgreSQL + MongoDB + Redis across AWS and GCP. Compliance requirements. Zero observability. No failover testing.
Observability stack → automated failover → compliance audit → cross-region CDC sync
Why Not the Alternatives?
Three options you're probably considering. Here's how they stack up.
vs. Hiring In-House DBAs
- One person = one point of failure. Leave, sick, quit — who covers?
- Senior DBA costs $30-60K/year. JusDB gives you a team for less.
- One DBA knows 1-2 databases. JusDB covers 12+ engines.
- Hiring takes 2-4 months. JusDB onboards in 1-2 weeks.
vs. MyDBops or Percona
- MyDBops: MySQL/MongoDB/PostgreSQL only. No StarRocks, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch.
- Percona: 4 databases at ~$154K/year. JusDB covers 12+ at a fraction.
- Neither offers CDC solutions or database automation development.
- JusDB brings SRE discipline — SLOs, error budgets, postmortems.
vs. Doing Nothing
- Unpatched databases = security vulnerabilities accumulating silently.
- No tested failover = one failure away from extended downtime.
- Unaudited cloud spend = 20-40% waste compounding monthly.
- No SLOs = degradation invisible until customers complain.
How We Work
Three steps. No ambiguity.
We Audit Your Fleet
We map every database instance, review configurations, analyze query patterns, assess security posture, and calculate cloud cost waste. You get a health scorecard — zero obligation.
We Deliver a Scorecard
A detailed report: what's healthy, what's at risk, and exactly how much you're overspending. Prioritized action plan with estimated savings. This alone has saved clients hundreds of thousands.
We Fix or We Manage
Option A: We execute fixes as a project and hand back a healthy fleet. Option B: We manage your databases ongoing with 24/7 SRE coverage, SLOs, and continuous optimization.
Common Questions
How do you access our production systems?
We work within your security framework. VPN, bastion hosts, or IAM roles with least-privilege access. All access is logged and auditable. We're happy to go through your security review process.
What's your incident response SLA?
P1 (database down): 15-minute response, 24/7/365. P2 (degraded performance): 30-minute response during business hours, 1-hour off-hours. P3 (non-urgent): 4-hour response during business hours.
Can you work alongside our existing DevOps team?
Yes — this is our most common setup. We own the database layer, your DevOps team owns infrastructure and application deployment. We integrate into your Slack, PagerDuty, and incident management workflows.
What if we want to hire our own DBAs later?
We'll help you hire. We can train your new DBAs, do a structured knowledge transfer, and step back gradually. Our goal is to make your databases reliable — whether we're the ones managing them or not.
Do you support multi-cloud?
Yes. We manage databases across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premise. Our observability stack works regardless of where your databases run. Multi-cloud is our default, not a special case.
How is JusDB different from Aiven or PlanetScale?
Platforms give you infrastructure automation. We give you human expertise — query tuning, migration planning, HA architecture, incident response, cost optimization. Platforms can't do a blameless postmortem or redesign your schema.
Bulletproof Databases
Without Building a Team
Start with a free fleet audit. We map your databases, find the cost savings, and show you exactly what's at risk — zero obligation.