Build databases that scale with your business. We design resilient, high-performance architectures for on-premises and cloud environments.
Great architecture is invisible — until you don't have it.
Poor database design is technical debt that compounds over time. Bad schema decisions, missing high availability, no disaster recovery, and poorly thought-out replication topologies don't just slow you down — they become business risks. Re-architecting later is always more expensive than doing it right the first time.
CloudFogg's database architecture and design service helps you build data environments that are resilient, scalable, and built to survive growth — whether you're starting from scratch, modernizing a legacy system, or designing for the cloud.
Architecture Services
Logical and physical database design — entity-relationship modeling, normalization, data typing, partitioning strategies, and design reviews for existing schemas.
Design of HA topologies including Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, MySQL Group Replication, PostgreSQL streaming replication, and cloud-native HA solutions.
DR strategy design defining RPO and RTO targets, standby database configuration, geo-redundancy, backup architecture, and documented failover and failback procedures.
Design of replication architectures for reporting offload, geographic distribution, ETL feeds, and zero-downtime migration — across transactional, snapshot, and merge replication models.
Horizontal and vertical scaling strategies, read replica design, sharding approaches, partitioning, and caching layer integration to support your growth without re-architecture.
Independent review of your existing database architecture — identifying risks, anti-patterns, single points of failure, and opportunities for improvement with a prioritized remediation plan.
Design Principles
Every architecture we design assumes failure will happen. We build in redundancy, automated failover, and recovery mechanisms so your database survives hardware failures, network outages, and cloud region issues without data loss.
We design for where you're going, not just where you are. Architectures that handle 10x your current load without requiring a complete redesign — through smart partitioning, read replica strategies, and cloud-native elasticity.
Deliverables
Detailed diagrams, configuration specifications, and design rationale — so your team understands what was built and why.
A step-by-step plan to implement the architecture — with sequencing, dependencies, testing milestones, and rollback checkpoints.
We don't just hand over a document and leave. CloudFogg can stay involved to implement, oversee, or validate the rollout of the designed architecture.