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Mini DBA vs backupd

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Mini DBA compared with backupd
DetailMini DBA logo Mini DBAbackupd logo backupd
What it doesDatabase performance monitoring for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and Azure SQL Back up, restore and check your databases from a terminal or a CI job
StageEstablished Not given
Founded2011 Not given
Based inGB Not given
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
Pricing14-day free trial; Community Edition free for one monitored database server. Paid plans available for multiple servers. Starter: $10/month (free for 14 days) with 5 databases, backups every 12 hours, kept 30 days, 50 GB included storage then $0.10 per GB. Pro: $25/month with 20 databases, backups every 6 hours, kept 90 days, 150 GB included storage then $0.08 per GB. Custom: contact sales@backupd.dev for pricing.
Key features
  • Multi-platform database monitoring for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and Azure SQL
  • Live performance dashboards with 40+ dashboards
  • Query and execution plan analysis
  • 75+ server and database health checks
  • Blocking and deadlock analysis
  • Configurable alerts with flexible thresholds and notifications
  • Performance history and metric replay
  • AI-assisted investigation using AI Assistant
  • Multi-site monitoring support with multiple Engines
  • Bring Your Own AI supporting OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Ollama and Anthropic Claude
  • Backup before migrations in CI pipelines with wait and fail guarantees
  • Scheduled backup health checks that fail if a database has no recent backup
  • Restore production backups to staging environments
  • Automatic backup restoration verification on sandbox servers
  • Encryption to user's own key with decryption on local machine
  • JSON output and exit codes for CI/CD pipeline integration
  • Restore to different database, original database or locally
  • Support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Convex databases
  • Uptime monitoring and alerts for failed backups
  • Compressed and encrypted storage with configurable retention periods
What makes it different
  • One browser Console for mixed database estates without switching tools between platforms
  • Problem-led investigation workflow across all supported database platforms
  • No separate logging database required for monitoring history and configuration
  • AI-assisted investigation contextualizes monitoring evidence to guide focused diagnostics
  • Free Community Edition with live monitoring for one database server
  • Backups encrypted to your own key so the service cannot access them
  • Automatic restore testing proves backups can actually be restored
  • Integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines with exit codes and JSON output
  • Open source MIT licensed with code on GitHub
  • No server agent required; backups can be restored with standard open tools
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)7 no change since last check4 +4 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)90
Citation Flow (Majestic)220
Referring domains (Majestic)550

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