Ruminations on Multi-Tenant Databases

: This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-tenancy to handle high traffic volumes at low cost. It then outlines the main requirements on multi-tenant databases: scale up by consolidating multiple tenants onto the same server and scale out by providing an administrative framework that manages a farm of such servers. Finally it describes three approaches to implementing multi-tenant databases and compares them based on some simple experiments. The main conclusion is that existing database vendors need to enhance their products to better support multi-tenancy. 1 Hosted Services and Multi-Tenancy In the hosted service model [GM02a, GM02b, Wa03], a service provider develops an application and operates the system that hosts it. Customers access the application over the Internet using industry-standard web browsers or Web Services clients. As the Internet has m...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BTW
• Authors: Dean Jacobs, Stefan Aulbach
• Keywords: BTW 2007, Hosted Service, Hosted Service Model, Multi-tenant Databases