Advantages of Hiring Our Database Developers
Remote Expertise
We fill your critical roles with expertise in database architecture design, tailored to your operating environment and the requirements of your customers and employees. Our team implements data pipelines to support real-time analytics and smart automation, and develops highly efficient integration solutions to interface data across various data stores and applications. Our database engineers are skilled in collaborating within cross-functional project teams to build software that involves these databases. To validate that solutions meet all functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements for maintaining data integrity, security, and availability across multiple databases and cloud platforms, our experts develop and implement database standards and policies, provide testing guidelines for database-related changes, and create and execute testing plans.
Great Cost-Effectiveness
Database programmers from Belitsoft is traditionally affordable for companies in higher-cost regions like the USA, UK, and Canada, especially those focused on budget-conscious hiring strategies. We offer reduced financial risk and cost-effective outsourcing with competitive pricing options (hourly, part-time, project-based, or full-time arrangements), making it easier to manage costs and providing the flexibility to adjust workloads or switch as needed. Effective processes (recruiting, project management, communication), along with strong requirements for English proficiency and soft skills, allow our database developers to deliver services with a consistently high level of quality and be as accountable as your in-house employees.
Enhanced Database Performance
Our database developers tune high-availability databases associated with your application systems. They design, implement, and maintain both NoSQL and SQL databases to manage large-scale data streams, write optimized, complex, and advanced ETL code, incorporating complex business logic into transformations while maintaining performance, perform data modeling, handle system capacity planning, and evaluate query plans. Their proficiency in identifying and optimizing performance bottlenecks through effective indexing strategies, as well as advanced data normalization and denormalization techniques, enables them to craft solutions capable of handling high-throughput data ingestion and processing.
Always Available Database
Our database programmers recognize that certain businesses (banks, financial companies, stock market applications, or emergency medical services) cannot tolerate downtime, delays, or transaction losses, as these directly affect user experience, commercial outcomes, and brand reputation. They monitor database accessibility, checking that databases are equipped with sufficient hardware resources, particularly in high transaction volume environments, and proactively maintain databases for resilience, speed, and minimal downtime. Leveraging their expertise in backup, recovery, and disaster recovery, our programmers implement these processes to maintain continuous data accessibility. Aware of the increasing sophistication of hacking tools and cyber-attacks, they also handle rollouts, patching, vulnerability assessments, upgrades, access control, encryption, intrusion detection and monitoring to reinforce database security.
Your customers and employees will be able to quickly retrieve and operate data, even from heavily loaded databases
Our database specialists work with both large and medium-sized database projects to optimize the operational efficiency of core business processes
Database Development
Our database specialists develop new, stable, and reliable proprietary database systems from scratch or implement secure database modifications to optimize the operational efficiency of core business processes. For large database projects, they design the database architecture to effectively transform data into your product offerings. They also create database objects (tables, views, stored procedures, packages, triggers, and functions), aggregate data sources, and integrate data between internal and external systems with a focus on data integrity, security, and compliance.
Database Modernization&Migration
We update and evolve legacy database systems, if you have such requirements, to align them with modern technologies (newer database engines, or advanced security features). Our migration experts transition databases to AWS or Azure Database Services, assist in developing data migrations, upgrading databases, conduct data migration tasks, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime. They ensure data is always consistent and of high quality (with data validation and unit testing) as well as highly available (using clustering, mirroring, replication, and log shipping).
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Database In a Nutshell
Databases are systems that store, organize, and manage data to facilitate the efficient retrieval of information. On a website, databases refer to the underlying technology used to manage and store site data. This concise guide offers an overview of how databases work, key terminologies, a comparison between SQL and NoSQL, and guidance on selecting the best database for your web application.
Businesses often require different types of databases for various purposes. Some common types to consider include centralized, cloud, commercial, distributed, end-user, graph, NoSQL, object-oriented, open-source, operational, personal, and relational databases.
Database Features
- Scalability to consider how much your data is likely to grow and how quickly.
- Sharding in order to store vast databases across multiple servers and minimize response times for queries.
- Replication to ensure that the information is available and accurate with data updates or a crash.
- Latency to evaluate the time it takes for data to travel back and forth between the database server and the application server.
- Consistency to prevent errors in the database and ensure that any modifications to the database don't make it invalid.
- Availability to respond quickly to a request even if failures occur, which is important when using databases that are spread across multiple servers.
- Fault-tolerance to keep functioning even if one or more components fail, thanks to various techniques such as replication or redundancy.
How to Hire a Database Developer
Hiring Process in Three Steps
- Talk to one of the database experts to share your requirements. We'll collaborate with you to comprehend your objectives, technical requirements, and team dynamics. Tell us what you need and don't worry about being perfect. Provide as many details as possible.
- Get a shortlist of top talents for interviewing. We will thoroughly screen qualified candidates who meet your specific engineering requirements and will provide you with their profiles.
- Start working quickly and communicate with a team easily. Maintaining transparency in project management and regularly communicating through tools such as chat or video calls, file sharing, and project progress tracking ensures that all stakeholders are kept up to date.
What a Software Development Company like Belitsoft Will Do for You
✅ Plan a working strategy. At this stage, we establish the details of our cooperation, including the scope of work for our developers and the timeline for completing the project.
✅ Start with an appropriate job description. To kick off the hiring process for a database developer, our team creates a job description that effectively communicates the needs of the company and the responsibilities of the role. A well-crafted job description attracts skilled and qualified candidates.
✅ Carry out a technical screening. We regard technical screening as an essential component of the hiring process when assembling a database development team. This thorough evaluation assesses the skills, experience, and enthusiasm of database developers, ensuring you gain the right talent. The screening test gauges a database developer's proficiency across multiple areas, including:
- database table and structure design
- optimizing SQL queries for integration with existing applications
- creating database triggers for automation
- managing database security
- maintaining data quality
- creating views, functions, and save systems
✅ Use simulators. Our database specialists consider simulators beneficial in the hiring process for database developers, as they help recruiters save resources while finding the right team. A simulator is a coding evaluation test that provides a real-world scenario for candidates to show their ability to create optimized queries for accessing data in an SQL database prior to an interview. Among the advantages of using simulators, there are:
- Offers a more accurate assessment compared to a job interview.
- Reduces biases.
- Enables candidates to gauge their own level of interest.
- Supports recruiters and hiring managers in verifying a candidate's technical proficiency.
✅ Online SQL skills assessment is another valuable method our database experts utilize to determine whether a developer has the expertise to meet your company's needs. The online format streamlines the evaluation process, potentially saving a considerable amount of time.
✅ Technical interview. The interviewer can focus on topics such as database knowledge, frameworks, programming languages, and other related areas since they verified the candidate's technical proficiency in the previous steps. These interviews are an opportunity to assess a developer's communication abilities, problem-solving capabilities, experience, time management, creativity, and other soft skills. This process helps ensure a comprehensive evaluation of the candidate's qualifications.
Are you looking for a quick, cost-effective solution to hire a skilled database developer? Partner with Belitsoft as your software development vendor and experience a seamless and efficient recruitment process. Don't wait – reach out to us to discuss the details today.
Database Developers' Skills to Require
Expertise in data modeling
The data model is a critical aspect of database management, as it outlines the entities such as "customers," "services," and "products" as well as their relationships. Thus, database developers should have a knowledge of data modeling, the ability to run benchmark stacks to ensure performance, and a knack for validating user requirements.
Moreover, developers should be adept at preventing common issues, such as data redundancy, zero saturation, tight coupling, and other related challenges.
Proficiency in query and programming Languages
Website database developers should have a firm command of SQL, the most widely used querying language for datasets. SQL equips users with various capabilities to access and manipulate data as needed. As the standard language for relational databases, SQL performs three primary operations on data: DDL, DML, and DCL. Therefore, it is crucial to hire database developers or administrators with a high level of expertise in the SQL language.
Apart from SQL, database developers should also be proficient in programming languages like Python, Java, and C#. Familiarity with multiple languages, frameworks, and technologies is crucial, as databases interact with various applications. Hence, when you hire a database programmer, ensure they are well-versed in these languages and adaptable to new technologies for your company's growth.
Efficiency in applying diverse Database Management Systems
In data management, a DBMS (Database Management System) is a software application that manages data storage, retrieval, and updating. It provides multi-user access, maintains data integrity, eliminates redundancy, and follows the ACID model for transactions. Popular DBMS software includes Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, and dBASE.
When hiring a database developer, look for candidates familiar with diverse DBMS systems, ideally proficient in multiple types, to best meet your organization's data needs.
Understanding of database security
To ensure business continuity, it is significant for database developers to have expertise in data protection and security. They should design and implement secure options to maintain data integrity and prevent unauthorized access or theft.
Essential soft skills for database developers
Important soft skills for database developers include communication, problem-solving, time management, attention to detail, and adaptability. These skills are crucial for effective collaboration, timely project completion, error detection, and staying current with developing technology.
Top Technology Stack for Database Development
- MySQL: A tailored database management system, MySQL Cluster addresses the unique needs of modern web-based, cloud-based, and communication-based services.
- Postgres: A robust and efficient open-source object-relational database system ideal for database management.
- MS SQL: This powerful DBMS supports transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications, focusing on relational data management.
- Oracle: A leading DBMS, Oracle offers comprehensive support for transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications, emphasizing relational data management.
- MongoDB: processes queries faster than MySQL but requires higher system resources and may increase system load.
- CosmoDB: the Azure solution with open APIs for any scale, typically used for any serverless application that needs low response times.
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