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		title: "Database Architecture Team"
		description: "The Database Architecture team enables GitLab engineering teams to build sustainably with data by providing decision frameworks for data placement, data growth controls, and coordinating the database review process across all datastores."
		description: "The Database Architecture team helps GitLab engineering teams build sustainably with data through retention and placement frameworks that keep growth in check and a database review process that scales with the codebase."
		---

		The Database Architecture team is the result of a split of the [Database Frameworks Team](/handbook/engineering/data-engineering/database-excellence/database-frameworks/).

		## Mission

		Enable teams to build sustainably with data by providing clear guidance, best practices, and frameworks for data placement, retention, and lifecycle management. We ensure that architectural decisions prevent future technical debt and support GitLab's long-term scalability across all datastores.
		Help GitLab's teams build sustainably with data, so the databases grow with the product instead of ahead of it. We do that with retention and placement frameworks that keep growth in check, and a database review process that scales with the codebase rather than with a small tier of reviewers.

		## Scope