The people living in a gated community could be easily related with the term multi-tenancy. We will be having multiple families living in their own flat/home (a user) within a building/phase (a tenant); together, they will form a gated community that is nothing but multi tenancy. In software terminology, a system supporting a set of users grouped together as a tenant (based on roles) would have their data stored in a single or shared database, and still serving data based on the tenant is called multi-tenancy.
The multi-tenancy application can be classified as follows:
- Standalone
- Database-per-tenant
- Shared multi-tenant
We will explore each one of the applications individually in the next sub-sections.
