AI & SaaS Development
Database per Tenant vs Shared Schema: Cost and Scaling Tradeoffs
Database per tenant gives you clean isolation and per-customer scaling, but it multiplies migrations and connection overhead. Shared schema with a tenant_id column keeps costs flat and operations simple, at the price of blast radius and noisy-neighbor risk. Here is how to pick based on your customer profile, not the hype.
Multi-Tenant SaaSDatabase ArchitecturePostgreSQL
Sep 14, 202614 min read