Engagement Fees & Estimates

Transparent, Scope-Defined Database Consulting Rates

We provide transparent, scope-defined consulting rates rather than opaque retainer commitments. Every engagement begins with clear diagnostic deliverables, measurable performance targets, and reproducible database benchmarks.

Most Requested Diagnostic

Targeted Diagnostic Sprint

Fixed-Scope Diagnostic Engagement

$4,800 USD

Typical Duration: 10 to 14 Business Days

Production database clusters experiencing acute query degradation, buffer pool starvation, or CPU saturation spikes.

Deliverables Included:

Complete pg_stat_statements / Performance Schema telemetry audit
Deep-dive EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) breakdown of top 25 high-impact queries
Targeted composite index and memory parameter (shared_buffers, work_mem) recommendations
Detailed remediation playbook with before-and-after query execution benchmarks
Two direct technical handover and strategy sessions with your engineering leads

Billing Structure: 50% upon commencement of telemetry ingestion, 50% upon final playbook delivery and benchmark review.

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Targeted Engagement

Concurrency & Lock Remediation Sprint

Milestone-Driven Technical Advisory

$3,600 USD

Typical Duration: 1 to 2 Weeks

Systems experiencing deadlocks, connection exhaustion, transaction queuing, or pooler starvation during peak concurrency.

Deliverables Included:

Deadlock telemetry audit and lock dependency graph mapping
Transaction isolation level and row-level locking restructuring roadmap
Connection pooler (PgBouncer/ProxySQL) architectural configuration
Live staging validation under simulated concurrent traffic loads

Billing Structure: Structured per milestone delivery and staging verification.

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Targeted Engagement

Large-Scale Partitioning & Storage Architecture

Custom Architectural Implementation Blueprint

$5,200 USD

Typical Duration: 2 to 3 Weeks

Monolithic multi-hundred gigabyte tables requiring zero-downtime declarative partitioning, storage tiering, or BRIN indexing.

Deliverables Included:

Partition key analysis based on workload query access patterns
Zero-downtime migration scripts and shadow partition pipeline blueprints
Autovacuum, freeze, and maintenance schedule recalibration
Post-migration query execution plan regression testing

Billing Structure: Structured across discovery, script validation, and migration readiness phases.

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Scope Determinants

Factors Influencing Engagement Scope & Timelines

Because database topologies vary widely in scale and schema complexity, we evaluate three primary technical criteria during our initial scoping call:

Cluster Topology & Scale

Number of active database nodes, read replicas, replica lag tolerances, and overall storage footprint (gigabytes to multi-terabytes).

Query Complexity & Schema Normalization

Volume of polymorphic tables, nested view layers, CTE recursion, and complex analytical joins running alongside transactional writes.

Telemetry Access & Security Constraints

Availability of sanitized telemetry exports, staging replica access, or on-premises VPN requirements for audit data analysis.

Informational Pricing & Tailored Scoping

All fee ranges displayed on this site are informational and based on typical project scopes. Exact proposals are generated after reviewing telemetry specifications and agreeing upon deliverables. No online checkout or automated billing is conducted on this website.

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