Research on data layer structure of multi-tenant e-commerce system
Jia Du, Haoyu Wen, Zhaojun Yang · 2010
The features and application ranges of several database design proposals applied in SaaS are discussed. Based on shared database / shared framework, three relationship-based extension models which are custom field, pre-allocation field and name-value pairs and XML-based extension model are discussed and the latter implementation approach in data definition, query and update is also given, along with some examples to illustrate its feasibility.