A new meta-data driven data-sharing storage model for SaaS

A multi-tenant database is the primary characteristic of SaaS, it allows SaaS vendors to run a single instance application which supports multiple tenants on the same hardware and software infrastructure. This application should be highly customizable to meet tenants’ expectations and business requirements. This paper examined current solutions on multi-tenancy, and proposed a new meta-data driven data-sharing storage model for multi-tenant applications. Our design enables tenants to extend their own database schema during multi-tenant application run-time execution to satisfy their business needs. Experimental results show that our model made a good balance between efficiency and customized.