A Framework for Multi-Tenant Database Adoption based on the Influencing Factors
Olumuyiwa Matthew, Kevan A Buckley, Mary Garvey · International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science · 2016
Multi-tenant databases (MTD) are aspect of computing that has become one of the revolutionary technologies of recent years.This technology has helped to discard the large-scale investments in hardware and software resources, in upgrading them regularly and also in expensive licences of application software used on inhouse hosted database systems.A MTD is a way of deploying a Database as a Service (DaaS) for the convenience and benefits of tenants.This concept is good for higher scalability and flexibility but it involves a lot of technicalities.The adoption of a MTD is based on some salient factors which can be grouped into four categories for easy understanding.A survey is presented in this research that involves a focus group of thirty respondents.The result shows the degree of impact each factor has on the decision to adopt a MTD.This paper also considers these factors and develops a framework that will help prospective tenants to take an informed decision about the adoption of the concept.