Hari Kiran, Founder, OpenSource DB (OSDB)

Hari Kiran is a seasoned Database Engineer with more than 17 years of experience in multiple domains of the IT Industry in Healthcare, Banking, Project & Portfolio Management, and CRM domains. He is Passionate about PostgreSQL and helps customers across geographies with Database Administration, Enterprise Implementations, Security and Hardening, Backup and Recovery, and Performance Tuning. Hari has worked at companies like GE, EnterpriseDB, Oracle, Optum, and 2ndQuadrant. Hari has been a regular speaker at Postgres conferences like PGconf India, and PGConf Down under in Australia regions.

In 2021, Hari started his Entrepreneurial journey by founding OpenSource DB (OSDB), a Database Services Start-up working with Customers & Organizations to maximize their potential in the Data-centric world, focused on "Anything & Everything on PostgreSQL", Data Analytics & Data Science, and providing PostgreSQL Professional Services & Database Development.

 

OpenSource DB (OSDB) and its services

OSDB is all about PEOPLE and Open-Source community. OSDB is a budding Start-up with Expert Database and Data-warehousing professionals having extensive experience and expertise in delivering Machine-critical Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) Solutions to maximize Database availability & Security while minimizing time and cost.

As Expert Database Engineers and Solutions Architects, OSDB always aim to be Customer-centric. They have powered 100+ applications worldwide with Architecture Health checks, DBRE, Security assessments, and our curated Professional Services. OSDB help Customers negate uncertainty around Community & FOSS Database platforms like PostgreSQL and also leverage reduced TCO for greater ROI.

OSDB works in the "SaaS - Service As A Subscription" model, a delivery model in which our Services are available on an "on-demand" basis, like an extension of the very own Customer team/internal organization.

OSDB is an ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System certified company and recognized as a Startup by the Gov. of India - Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in the Professional & Commercial Services Industry and Business Support Supplies sector.

 

What makes you different from other database management companies? 

We use the SaaS (Service As A Subscription) delivery model. Unlike the conventional Software-As-A-Service SaaS models, where SLA could be compromised, and there are limited customization options, OSDB Service offerings are tailor-made to our Customer needs.

 

How do you ensure the availability, security, & reliability of databases?

By deploying OSDB Trusted EA2 model:

  • Embracing Software-defined Infrastructure services to help maximize data availability and not being hardware dependent/integrated
  • Avoid SPoF (i.e., eliminate single point of failure)
  • Embracing redundancy that enables both availability & reliability
  • Automate Failover to complete the process of combining both Data Redundancy and automatic healing


Architectural Health Check (AHC) for Database

Create a set of specific and actionable high impact recommendations on:

  • Solution Design
  • Enterprise Architecture Review
  • Monitoring Best Practices
  • Backup Best Practices
  • High-Availability Architectures
  • Security Compliance Assessment


The end product is a comprehensive report that enables Customer Teams to devise a Postgres strategy for the Implementation of Solutions in Short/Mid/Long term.


PostgreSQL practicum, MySQL practicum, and lean and clear data

Postgres customers choose PostgreSQL services, and MySQL customers choose MySQL.

Our Lean and Clean Data service enables Customers to implement Database/Schema/Table Partitioning & Archiving data with great ease and with ZERO service disruption. It improves the manageability and query performance of the data while enhancing security and simplifying data handling. Available for both MySQL and PostgreSQL database platforms, they help you utilise the data instantly for your Cutting-edge & Critical systems.


The purpose of cloud-platform data lake on an open source ecosystem

In a broader sense, we strongly believe the following use-cases are most common for Customers to opt to setup a Cloud-platform Data Lake on an Open source ecosystem.

  • Democratization of datasets and offering users a set of self-service tools
  • Seamless integration of diversified data sources, formats, etc. for integration
  • Transformation of datasets into Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning

Expert team of OSDB

OSDB as a Team Live, Eat & Breathe PostgreSQL. Collectively, they have close to 5 decades of Postgres expertise. The Team comprises of Database System Architects, Domain-driven Application Architects, Developers & DevOps professionals with experience starting from 0-17yrs in the Databases Ecosystem.

OSDB Team members are regular speakers at FOSS and Postgres Conferences across Asia Pacific. We believe in "Learn and Share," so we blog frequently at https://opensource-db.com/osdb-blog/, which also helps our team to be abreast with the Technological advancement.

 

The Growing Success of OpenSource DB




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