Phantom Record Buster vs RVS Database Doctor

Phantom Record Buster is a lightweight tool designed to identify and remove orphaned or ‘phantom’ records from your WordPress database. It helps maintain site performance by keeping your database clean and efficient.

RVS Database Doctor is a professional database administration tool. It gives you insight into the current state, safely cleans and optimizes, and shows exactly how much you saved – with full support for large databases. Key features Dashboard with health score and one-click Optimize Now. Time-based job runner (default batch 1000, auto-adapts to max_execution_time) – works smoothly on databases with 100k+ rows. Background queue (WP-Cron drain every minute, Action Scheduler when available) – you can close the tab and the job continues. Before / After snapshots with SVG charts and per-table delta (no external dependencies). Guided Safe Cleanup Wizard with recommended selections, CARE confirmations, before/after snapshots, and cleanup result deltas. Smart Advisor v2 – health score (0-100, grade A-F), actionable tips, and EXPLAIN query-plan hints for slow queries. Bulk actions for Table Sizes, Autoload Options, Index Analysis, and Cleanup tabs. Manual full database backup with a user-selectable table list and manifest.json metadata. Choose PHP chunked dump (works anywhere) or native mysqldump (fast). Full database restore from plugin-created backups – automatic pre-restore backup, streaming SQL import, progress tracking, and mandatory confirmation (type RESTORE). Micro-backup of affected tables before destructive operations (gzip when available, retention by days and count). Scheduled optimizations – hourly / daily / weekly / monthly. Scheduled health digest emails – daily, weekly, or monthly summaries sent to the configured notification email. MyISAM → InnoDB conversion (batched with progress bar). Autoload analysis with severity levels, segmentation, search, filter, pagination, and bulk update – no longer limited to 50 options. Index analysis – missing expected, composite suggestions, sys redundant / unused. WooCommerce / HPOS detection and specific suggestions. Cleanup: expired transients, revisions, auto-drafts, old trash, spam / trash comments, orphan postmeta / commentmeta / term_relationships, expired WC sessions, Action Scheduler old actions / logs, duplicate postmeta, stale session tokens, _edit_lock / _edit_last. Actions log – every attempt is recorded (success / error / dry-run). WP-CLI commands for every action including backup create --all, backup validate , and backup restore --confirm=RESTORE (wp rvs-database-doctor …; wp rvs-db-doctor … is also supported). Safety rules All destructive actions require the manage_options capability + nonce + explicit confirmation checkbox. Table names are validated against information_schema before any ALTER / ANALYZE / OPTIMIZE / DELETE. Auto-backup of affected tables before destructive operations (enabled by default). The plugin never deletes anything automatically; Optimize Now runs safe categories only by default.