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Posted by: Andrew Blake
Date: April 23, 2011 03:32PM

What issues are there running potentially thousands of databases on one server - each having the same structure.

I have been googling and searching forums here but as yet havn't come across a good answer to this - only debate as to design.

I realize this is abnormal in conventional design however this design adds a great deal of versatility to our SAAS system helping make it suitable to a wider range of business types. Currently each user has their own database and can hence add to, and manipulate their own database if they need to. Basically combined with running php via suphp users of our system can safely enhance the functionality to suit their own individual needs - i.e. with their own stored procedures, tables views, extra columns etc which can then be accessed and linked to from php.

What I am trying to determine basically is along the lines of - does mysql require a certain minimum amount of mem per database, or are there other resources we are going to run short of etc as numbers get higher (in comparision to a single database)? Are there other pitfalls we need to be aware of with this design. Are there things we need to set in place.

We could if we had to switch to using a conventional design but we couldn't then offer the same versatility/expandability hence conventional design is inferior for this purpose.

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