Guardrails Put Relational Databases on Safer Paths to Automation

DBtune Founder, CEO Nardi on Reshaping Modern Data Management Matthew Perry • November 28, 2025

Relational databases hold up as the foundation of modern data management in no small part because of system maturity and the innate ability to model complex relationships, said Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DBtune.

Due to the sheer volume of data worldwide, which is quickly surging from terabytes to petabyte range, enterprises are being forced to abandon manual tuning. According to Nardi, reliance on traditional tuning has waned. Whether it's due to expense or scale, this shift in database management has created a pressure around automation to optimize entire fleet's worth of data proactively rather than reactively.

DBtune combines "probabilistic machine learning" with "deterministic guardrails" to address domain-specific LLMs with safe, high-confidence adjustments in production. "Everybody needs to feel safe and not in a danger zone when they're using this type of ...