Executive Summary

Modern engineering teams waste significant time diagnosing slow SQL queries and suboptimal indexes, which drives up cloud spend and causes user-facing latency; this is a common pain across roughly 200,000 teams supporting production databases. Existing observability often surfaces symptoms but not prioritized, actionable fixes, so resolution remains manual, error-prone, and dependent on scarce DBA expertise. You could build an AI-assisted platform that automatically detects slow queries and index issues, prioritizes them by cost and risk, and generates safe, testable fixes (including reproducible diffs and rollback-safe index operations) that plug into CI/CD and monitoring pipelines. The product would combine query sampling, cost-estimation, and contextual explanations across SQL dialects and cloud DBs to make recommendations engineer-friendly and auditable. The market is attractive now—estimated at $6.0B (200,000 teams × $30K ACV)—because AI-assisted developer tooling is lowering adoption friction, while cloud migration and serverless databases are increasing query performance variability and controllable spend. Shift-left observability trends create a clear go-to-market path to capture pre-production value and deliver measurable ROI in reduced cloud costs and fewer incidents. To differentiate, prioritize high-precision, low-noise recommendations, deep CI/CD and native DB integrations, transparent cost-savings estimates, and enterprise-grade data governance (on-prem and encrypted SaaS) to overcome trust and integration challenges that are the main barriers to adoption.

Market Opportunity

Detect and fix slow queries and index problems using AI assistance targets a $6.0B = 200,000 engineering teams × $30K ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15% YoY (estimate based on DB observability, AIOps, and database tooling market CAGR reports).

Key trends driving demand: AI-assisted developer tools are being adopted rapidly, which makes automated code and query suggestions acceptable in engineering workflows — this reduces friction for AI-driven DB tooling.; Cloud migration and serverless databases increase the variability of query performance and cloud spend, making automated optimization both more necessary and more valuable.; Shift-left practices and integration of observability into CI/CD create opportunities to catch performance regressions earlier, enabling payback for pre-production optimization tooling..

Key competitors include Datadog - Database Monitoring, EverSQL, Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM).

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