A Study and Performance Evaluation of the Multi-Tenant Data Tier Design Patterns for Service Oriented Computing

  • Authors:
  • Zhi Hu Wang;Chang Jie Guo;Bo Gao;Wei Sun;Zhen Zhang;Wen Hao An

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICEBE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Multi-tenancy is one of key characteristics of the service oriented computing especially for Software as a Service (SaaS) to leverage economy of scale to drive down total cost of ownership for both service consumer and provider. This paper aims to study the technologies to build a cost-effective, secure and scalable multi-tenant infrastructure, especially in data tier. We first explore all the key implementation patterns of data tier multi-tenancy on aspects of isolation, security, customization & scalability etc. Furthermore, we mainly evaluate the performance of these design patterns on aspects of isolation and security via a series of experiments and simulations. This paper also identifies the potential performance bottlenecks, summarizes corresponding optimization approaches and best implementation practices for different multi-tenant business usage models.