Horizontal and vertical combination of multi-tenancy patterns in service-oriented applications

Software as a service (SaaS) providers exploit economies of scale by offering the same instance of an application to multiple customers typically in a single-instance multi-tenant architecture model. Therefore the applications must be scalable, multi-tenant aware and configurable. In this article, w...

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Published inEnterprise information systems Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 59 - 77
Main Authors Mietzner, Ralph, Leymann, Frank, Unger, Tobias
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 01.02.2011
Subjects
component-oriented architecture
Computer programs
Configurable
Customers
Hardware
Information systems
Mathematical models
Middleware
service-oriented architecture
services-based business solutions
Software
Web services
work flow
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Summary:Software as a service (SaaS) providers exploit economies of scale by offering the same instance of an application to multiple customers typically in a single-instance multi-tenant architecture model. Therefore the applications must be scalable, multi-tenant aware and configurable. In this article, we show how the services in a service-oriented SaaS application can be deployed using different multi-tenancy patterns. We describe how services in different multi-tenancy patterns can be composed on the application level. In addition to that, we also describe how these multi-tenancy patterns can be applied to middleware and hardware components. We then show with some real world examples how the different multi-tenancy patterns can be combined.
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ISSN:1751-7575
1751-7583
DOI:10.1080/17517575.2010.492950