We have written two books on database programming. As licensed lawyers, we have experience in using database forensics to secure evidence in litigation. Database forensics is a branch of digital forensics used to investigate database content and their metadata. We provide our law firm and corporate clients the following eDiscovery database services.
Database Forensic Collections
We collect all database files and transaction logs containing evidence important to the litigation. Frequently, this includes backups of the database as litigation is often historical. In addition, when data is deleted either intentionally or inadvertently, database recovery from backups is often helpful.
Database Data Extraction
We use standard reports, custom reports, data export, queries and stored procedures to extract the data you need for your case. Based on the details in your case, we also apply date ranges, search terms, or other criteria to reduce the amount of data you have to review.
Database Legal Review
Database legal review is considerably different than normal document review. Primarily, instead of looking at each record separately, you need to analyze and consolidate the data to provide useful information. We produce an output report, usually an Excel spreadsheet, that will provide the evidence the lawyers, or their forensic accountants need to review.
Database Productions
Once we’ve completed the extraction, we can give you CSV files to produce responsive and non-privileged database evidence to the opposing party. Then, opposing counsel can review as is, or upload the information into their litigation support software for legal review.
Types of Databases
The most common database we collect, preserve, analyze, and review include:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Postgre SQL
- Microsoft Access
- MongoDB
- IBM Db2
However, there are many other databases to which we apply forensics to secure your evidence. These include:
- 1010data
- 4D
- 4store
- Accumulo
- Actian PSQL
- Actian Vector
- ActivePivot
- ActorDB
- Adabas
- Aerospike
- AgensGraph
- AlaSQL
- Algolia
- Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL
- Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL
- Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB
- Alibaba Cloud Log Service
- Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute
- Alibaba Cloud Table Store
- Alibaba Cloud TSDB
- AllegroGraph
- Altibase
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon DocumentDB
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Neptune
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Amazon Timestream
- AnzoGraph
- Apache Drill
- Apache Jena – TDB
- ArangoDB
- Axibase
- Badger
- Bangdb
- BaseX
- BergDB
- BigchainDB
- BigObject
- Blazegraph
- Blueflood
- BoltDB
- BrightstarDB
- Brytlyt
- Cachelot.io
- Cassandra
- Citus
- ClickHouse
- Cloudant
- CloudKit
- Clustrix
- CockroachDB
- Comdb2
- CortexDB
- Couchbase
- CouchDB
- CovenantSQL
- CrateDB
- c-treeACE
- c-treeEDGE
- CubicWeb
- Cubrid
- D3
- DaggerDB
- Datacom/DB
- DataEase
- Datameer
- Datastax Enterprise
- Datomic
- Db4o
- dBASE
- DBISAM
- DensoDB
- Derby
- Dgraph
- DolphinDB
- Druid
- Dydra
- Edge Intelligence
- Ehcache
- EJDB
- Elassandra
- Elasticsearch
- ElevateDB
- Elliptics
- Eloquera
- Empress
- EnterpriseDB
- EsgynDB
- etcd
- Event Store
- EXASOL
- eXist-db
- Exorbyte
- eXtremeDB
- FaunaDB
- FileMaker
- FinchDB
- Firebase Realtime Database
- Firebird
- FlockDB
- Fluree
- FoundationDB
- FrontBase
- GBase
- GemStone/S
- Geode
- GeoSpock
- Giraph
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Google Cloud Datastore
- Google Cloud Firestore
- Google Cloud Spanner
- Grakn
- Graph Engine
- GraphBase
- GraphDB
- Graphite
- Greenplum
- GridDB
- GridGain
- GT.M
- H2
- Hawkular Metrics
- HAWQ
- Hazelcast
- HBase
- Helium
- Heroic
- HFSQL
- HGraphDB
- Hibari
- Hive
- HugeGraph
- HyperGraphDB
- HyperLevelDB
- HyperSQL
- Hyprcubd
- IBM Db2 Event Store
- IBM Db2 warehouse
- iBoxDB
- IDMS
- Ignite
- Impala
- IMS
- Indica
- Infinispan
- InfiniteGraph
- InfinityDB
- InfluxDB
- Infobright
- Informix
- Ingres
- Interbase
- InterSystems Caché
- InterSystems IRIS
- IRONdb
- ITTIA
- Jackrabbit
- Jade
- JaguarDB
- JanusGraph
- JasDB
- jBASE
- JethroData
- JSqlDb
- KairosDB
- K-DB
- Kdb+
- KeyDB
- Kinetica
- Kognitio
- Kyoto Cabinet
- Kyoto Tycoon
- LeanXcale
- LedisDB
- LevelDB
- Linter
- LiteDB
- LokiJS
- Lovefield
- M3DB
- Machbase
- Manticore Search
- MapDB
- MapR-DB
- MariaDB
- MarkLogic
- Matisse
- MaxDB
- Memcached
- Memgraph
- MemSQL
- Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Azure Data Explorer
- Microsoft Azure Search
- Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- Microsoft Azure Table Storage
- Mimer SQL
- Mnesia
- Model 204
- ModeShape
- MonetDB
- mSQL
- Mulgara
- NCache
- Nebula Graph
- Neo4j
- Netezza
- NEventStore
- Newts
- NexusDB
- NonStop SQL
- Northgate Reality
- NosDB
- NSDb
- NuoDB
- ObjectBox
- ObjectDB
- Objectivity/DB
- ObjectStore
- OmniSci
- OpenBase
- OpenEdge
- OpenInsight
- OpenQM
- OpenTSDB
- Oracle Berkeley DB
- Oracle Coherence
- Oracle Essbase
- Oracle NoSQL
- Oracle Rdb
- OrientDB
- OrigoDB
- Percona Server for MongoDB
- Percona Server for MySQL
- Perst
- PipelineDB
- Postgres-XL
- PouchDB
- Presto
- Project Voldemort
- Prometheus
- Quasardb
- QuestDB
- R:BASE
- Raima Database Manager
- RaptorDB
- Rasdaman
- RavenDB
- RDF4J
- Realm
- Redis
- Redland
- RedStore
- Resin Cache
- RethinkDB
- Riak KV
- Riak TS
- Rizhiyi
- RocksDB
- Rockset
- RRDtool
- Sadas Engine
- SAP Adaptive Server
- SAP Advantage Database Server
- SAP HANA
- SAP IQ
- SAP SQL Anywhere
- Scalaris
- ScaleArc
- ScaleOut StateServer
- SciDB
- ScyllaDB
- SearchBlox
- searchxml
- Sedna
- SenseiDB
- Sequoiadb
- Siaqodb
- SiriDB
- SiteWhere
- SmallSQL
- SnappyData
- Snowflake
- solidDB
- Solr
- Spark SQL
- SparkleDB
- Sparksee
- Sphinx
- Splice Machine
- Splunk
- SQL.JS
- SQLBase
- SQLite
- SQream DB
- Starcounter
- Stardog
- Strabon
- STSdb
- SwayDB
- Tajo
- Tarantool
- Teradata
- TerarkDB
- TerminusDB
- Tibero
- TiDB
- TigerGraph
- TimescaleDB
- TimesTen
- TinkerGraph
- Tokyo Cabinet
- Tokyo Tyrant
- TomP2P
- ToroDB
- Trafodion
- Transbase
- TransLattice
- UniData,UniVerse
- Upscaledb
- Valentina Server
- VelocityDB
- Versant FastObjects
- Versant Object Database
- Vertica
- VictoriaMetrics
- Virtuoso
- VistaDB
- VoltDB
- WakandaDB
- Warp 10
- Weaviate
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale
- WhiteDB
- WiredTiger
- XAP
- Xapian
- XtremeData
- Yaacomo
- Yanza
- Yellowbrick
- YugabyteDB
- ZODB