Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-50

BibliographyMietzner, Ralph; Unger, Tobias; Titze, Robert; Leymann, Frank: Combining Different Multi-Tenancy Patterns in Service-Oriented Applications.
In: IEEE Computer Society (ed.): Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Conference (EDOC 2009).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 131-140, english.
IEEE, October 2, 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3785-6; DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2009.13.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.11 (Software Engineering Software Architectures)
H.4.1 (Office Automation)
Keywordsmulti-tenancy; SaaS; services; SOA; composite applications
Abstract

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 multitenant architecture model. Therefore the applications must be scalable, multi-tenant aware and configurable. In this paper we show how the services in a service-oriented SaaS application can be deployed using different multi-tenancy patterns. We describe how the chosen patterns influence the customizability, multi-tenant awareness and scalability of the application. Using the patterns we describe how individual services in a multitenant aware application can be not multi-tenant aware while maintaining the overall multi-tenant awareness of the application. We show based on a real-world example how the patterns can be used in practice and show how existing applications already use these patterns.

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Contactralph.mietzner@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
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Entry dateJune 10, 2009
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