Deep configuration
AskDB supports the operational nuance implied by this section—without pushing complexity onto end users.
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Self — Hosted — AskDB
Deep dive: Self — Hosted for AskDB at enterprise scale.
AskDB is an Autowhat production system focused on natural-language analytics on postgres, snowflake, mongo, mysql, and oracle. It is deployed with the same engineering discipline we apply across logistics, finance, and growth portfolios: explicit governance, measurable SLAs, and operators who can defend decisions under audit.
This page focuses on self hosted—how AskDB implements that slice in enterprise settings, what prerequisites matter, and what “done” looks like on your side of the firewall.
If the fit is directional but not exact, a 30-minute working session usually resolves it—our engineers will tell you plainly whether the product matches your bottleneck, or whether a different Autowhat system (or composition) is the right answer.
What this means in production
Measured rollout
Pilot windows, cutover plans, and training artefacts are standard—not improvised per customer.
Shared roadmap
Product direction is influenced by deployed customers, not hypothetical verticals.
Self-serve without schema chaos
Business users ask in natural language while the system stays schema-aware—reducing the ticket queue without bypassing governance.
Safe against destructive paths
Policies, role scopes, and query plans are designed so exploration does not become an operational incident.
Where your data already lives
PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, and Oracle footprints are supported with deployment options including self-hosted.
How rollout is structured
- 01 · Connect
Wire warehouses with read scopes, sample policies, and approved metric definitions for your org.
- 02 · Pilot teams
Start with finance, growth, or operations champions. Measure time-to-answer and ticket reduction honestly.
- 03 · Scale
Expand schemas, languages, and guardrails as confidence grows—without re-platforming the experience.
11+Enterprise deployments
10Production products
99.9%Platform SLA target
What procurement validates
- Named integration owners on both sides with weekly checkpoint
- Written acceptance criteria tied to real workflows—not demo scripts
- Security review pack: architecture, subprocessors, DPA, and logging
- Hypercare window with on-call engineering and rollback posture
- Success metrics agreed upfront (time, cost, risk, adoption)
Common questions
Will users get wrong answers?
AskDB is built for enterprise guardrails: schema grounding, policy scopes, and human-in-the-loop promotion paths for sensitive metrics.
Do we need a new warehouse?
No. AskDB queries systems you already operate. The goal is access and speed—not another migration science project.
Can we air-gap?
Self-hosted deployments are supported for regulated environments that cannot use public SaaS inference paths.
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Move from evaluation to deployment
Book a working session with our engineers. We map your bottlenecks to live products and tell you plainly what will work in your environment.