Middleware Segmentation for Multi-Tenant Database Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional hosting solutions for multiple clients face challenges such as increased downtime during database upgrades, high manual effort for content deployment, and inefficiencies in backup and recovery processes due to shared database environments, which compromise data reliability and client autonomy.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where a provider hosts multiple tenants with shared and tenant-specific data structures, allowing each tenant to access their specific data while using standard database tools for management, ensuring isolation and independent management without affecting other tenants.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a multi-client system shares a common database for all clients, then resource utilization and scalability are improved, but database maintenance time and client downtime increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the common database into separate physical databases for each client. Each client's data is isolated in its own database instance, allowing independent maintenance, backup, and recovery operations. This segmentation enables the provider to perform database maintenance on one client's database without affecting other clients, thereby reducing overall maintenance downtime while maintaining resource efficiency through centralized management of multiple databases.
2Productivity
If a multi-client system uses a common database, then deployment efficiency is improved, but backup and recovery capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By creating separate physical databases for each client, the system enables use of standard database tools for backup and recovery operations on individual client databases. The provider can backup and recover specific client data independently without affecting other clients, significantly improving data reliability and recovery capability while maintaining efficient content deployment through centralized database management.
3Reliability
If a single-client system is used for each client, then data reliability and management independence are improved, but system complexity and client effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements segmentation by providing each client with a separate physical database while maintaining centralized management infrastructure. This approach delivers the data independence and reliability of single-client systems, while the provider manages all databases through a unified platform, avoiding the operational complexity and client effort associated with fully distributed single-client deployments.
4Productivity
If client content is stored in a common database, then resource sharing is improved, but content deployment time and manual effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments client content into separate physical databases while maintaining centralized management capabilities. This structure enables efficient resource sharing through the management platform while allowing rapid content deployment to individual client databases without the need to sort through or lock other clients' content, significantly reducing deployment time and manual effort.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants in a computer-based environment in which a provider stores a shared data structure. Each of the tenants may communicate with a middleware module storing metadata referencing the shared data structure and a tenant-specific data structure specific to the first tenant for access by the first tenant. Based on the metadata and in response to a data request from the first tenant, the system may the query the provider or the first tenant for requested data and provide the requested data based on the querying.