Role Database

role-database

Senior Database Engineer plugin for Claude Code covering 230+ databases across 14 categories and 12 cross-cutting DBA disciplines.

Agent

• senior-database-engineer — Acts as a Senior Database Engineer / DBA with 10+ years of experience managing production databases at scale. Deep operational expertise across all major database categories.

Database Category Skills (Tier 1)

Skill	Databases Covered
relational-databases	PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQLite, IBM Db2, SAP HANA, Firebird, Informix, SingleStore, EDB, Percona Server, Amazon Aurora, Google AlloyDB, Azure SQL, Neon, Supabase, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB
document-databases	MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, CouchDB, Couchbase, RavenDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Firebase Firestore, FerretDB, ToroDB, ArangoDB
key-value-stores	Redis, Valkey, Amazon DynamoDB, Memcached, etcd, FoundationDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis, Google Memorystore, KeyDB, Dragonfly, Apache Ignite, Hazelcast, Aerospike, Garnet
columnar-databases	Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, HBase, Google Bigtable, ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks, Apache Kudu, MonetDB, Vertica, Apache Pinot, InfluxDB
graph-databases	Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Dgraph, JanusGraph, TigerGraph, ArangoDB, Memgraph, TypeDB, Apache AGE, NebulaGraph, Blazegraph, Stardog
time-series-databases	InfluxDB, Prometheus, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, VictoriaMetrics, TDengine, Apache IoTDB, Graphite, KDB+, OpenTSDB, M3DB, CrateDB, Amazon Timestream, GridDB
newsql-distributed	CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, TiDB, Google Spanner, Vitess, PlanetScale, Citus, SingleStore, OceanBase, AlloyDB, Neon, CockroachDB Serverless
vector-databases	Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus/Zilliz, Qdrant, ChromaDB, pgvector, LanceDB, Vespa, Marqo, Vald, Elasticsearch kNN, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Redis Stack Vector, Neo4j Vector, SingleStore Vector, Turbopuffer
streaming-databases	Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Redpanda, NATS/JetStream, Apache Flink, Materialize, RisingWave, Spark Structured Streaming, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ Streams, EventStoreDB, Memphis
data-warehouse-olap	Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, DuckDB, Apache Druid, Apache Spark SQL, Trino, Apache Hive, Apache Doris, Firebolt, Vertica, StarRocks, ClickHouse
embedded-databases	SQLite, RocksDB, LevelDB, LMDB, BoltDB/bbolt, BadgerDB, Realm, ObjectBox, libSQL, DuckDB, H2, HSQLDB
multi-model-databases	ArangoDB, SurrealDB, FaunaDB, Azure Cosmos DB, OrientDB, MarkLogic, InterSystems IRIS, Couchbase
serverless-databases	Neon, Turso/libSQL, Supabase, PlanetScale, Cloudflare D1, Xata, Upstash, CockroachDB Serverless, Amazon Aurora Serverless, Azure Cosmos DB Serverless
search-engines	Apache Solr, Typesense, Meilisearch, Algolia, Zinc, Manticore Search, Sonic, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, MongoDB Atlas Search

DBA Lifecycle Skills (Tier 2)

Skill	Description
schema-design	Normalization, denormalization, multi-tenancy patterns, PK strategies, naming conventions
query-optimization	EXPLAIN analysis, indexing strategies, N+1 elimination, pagination patterns
replication-ha	Replication topologies, failover automation, consensus protocols, split-brain prevention
backup-recovery	Full/incremental/differential backups, PITR, backup verification, RPO/RTO planning
database-migration	Migration tools, zero-downtime patterns, cross-engine migration, CDC-based migration
database-monitoring	pg_stat_statements, Performance Schema, mongostat, Redis INFO, Datadog, PMM, pganalyze
database-security	Authentication, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit, audit logging, compliance
capacity-planning	Storage/IOPS/memory sizing, connection pooling, sharding triggers, cost estimation
data-modeling	ER modeling, document modeling, graph modeling, dimensional modeling, Data Vault
connection-management	PgBouncer, pgcat, ProxySQL, HikariCP, serverless connection strategies
performance-diagnostics	Lock contention, deadlocks, I/O bottlenecks, memory pressure, benchmarking
database-devops	Terraform, K8s operators, Helm charts, GitOps, schema migration in CI/CD, Testcontainers

Cross-Cutting Dependencies

This plugin references foundational skills from alpha-core:

• database-advisor, security-advisor, performance-optimization, architecture-patterns, observability, cloud-infrastructure, ci-cd-patterns