Creating Scalable Multitenant Architectures for the Cloud

An article by Steve Bobrowski    1 Comment

I had some great fun earlier this week: I gave a 2hr talk on multitenancy for a Morningstar Tech Talk in Chicago. If you weren’t able to make it, here’s the video.

Creating Scalable Multi-Tenant Architectures for the Cloud from Morningstar Tech Talks on Vimeo

There are no chapters/bookmarks in the video, so here’s a talk timeline to help you find what you are looking for …

0:0-0:31: All Clouds are Not Equal

• IaaS & PaaS, defined and compared
• multitenancy defined and why it’s important
• how multitenant architectures fuel rapid app advancement and innovation
• Q & A

0:31-1:27: Experiences Building Database Multitenancy

• competing challenges you’ll face
• the multitenancy spectrum: architecture options for tenant data isolation
• some relational and non-relational table design options
• system-level architecture challenges
• Q & A

1:27-End: The Multitenant Architecture of Database.com

• overview
• Database.com’s multitenant data model
• Database.com’s multitenant processing architecture
• proof of the power of multitenancy
• Q & A