How to implement Multi-tenant User Login using ASP.NET Identity

I’ve now got a working solution that I’ve shared in a GitHub repository: https://github.com/JSkimming/AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.Multitenant The extensibility required to support multi-tenancy is not possible with the 1.0.0 release of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework (at least not without a lot of custom work), but is available in the 1.1 alpha release currently available through the Nightly ASP.NET Web Stack NuGet … Read more

optimal architecture for multitenant application on django

We built a multitenancy platform using the following architecture. I hope you can find some useful hints. Each tenant gets sub-domain (t1.example.com) Using url rewriting the requests for the Django application are rewritten to something like example.com/t1 All url definitions are prefixed with something like (r’^(?P<tenant_id>[\w\-]+) A middleware processes and consumes the tenant_id and adds … Read more

Multi-tenancy: Managing multiple datasources with Spring Data JPA

To implement multi-tenancy with Spring Boot we can use AbstractRoutingDataSource as base DataSource class for all ‘tenant databases‘. It has one abstract method determineCurrentLookupKey that we have to override. It tells the AbstractRoutingDataSource which of the tenant datasource it has to provide at the moment to work with. Because it works in the multi-threading environment, … Read more

What are the advantages of using a single database for EACH client?

Assume there’s no scaling penalty for storing all the clients in one database; for most people, and well configured databases/queries, this will be fairly true these days. If you’re not one of these people, well, then the benefit of a single database is obvious. In this situation, benefits come from the encapsulation of each client. … Read more

How to create a multi-tenant database with shared table structures?

However there are some companies of course who fear that their data might be compromised, so we are evaluating other solutions. This is unfortunate, as customers sometimes suffer from a misconception that only physical isolation can offer enough security. There is an interesting MSDN article, titled Multi-Tenant Data Architecture, which you may want to check. … Read more

How to design a multi tenant mysql database

There are several approaches to multi-tenant databases. For discussion, they’re usually broken into three categories. One database per tenant. Shared database, one schema per tenant. Shared database, shared schema. A tenant identifier (tenant key) associates every row with the right tenant. MSDN has a good article on the pros and cons of each design, and … Read more

Multiple schemas versus enormous tables [closed]

I want to see which method is more efficient in terms of querying in the database. In a multi-tenant database, querying is only part of the problem. Other parts of the problem are cost, data isolation and protection, maintenance, and disaster recovery. These are significant; you can’t consider only query efficiency in a multi-tenant database. … Read more