Implementing Customizable Data Schemas for Multi-tenant Applications Using Extension Table Layout

• Main Author: 李明憲
• Other Authors: 陳恭
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75722055597002848034

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 資訊科學學系 === 101 === Software as a service (SaaS) is an emerging service model of cloud computing. One of the key technology in SaaS is supporting multi-tenant applications. There are many considerations in the design of multi-tenant applications, including customized configuration of tenants and data security. In this thesis, we focus on data-level customized configuration, and propose an approach for not only sharing database between tenants but also supporting tenants to modify their table schemas within limits. Extension Table Layout is one solution for solving the problems in data-level customized configuration for multi-tenant applications. However, SQL statemenst based on the Extension Table Layout are rather complicated and error-prone. Thus, we develop a tool to help software developers that will automatically rewrite the SQL statements from the common Private Table Layout into those from the Extension Table Layout at runtime. In other words, our tool enable software developers to write SQL statements in a multi-tenant application like in a single tenant application. Indeed, software developers could develop a multi-tenant application easily by using our tool and the multi-tenant enabler - TenantId. In order to assess the feasibility of our tool, we develop an online multi-tenant course election application. Besides, we disscus the effectiveness of the factors that affecting our tool and work on a number of experiments and performance tests. The preliminary results show that our SQL rewriting tool can help software developers at a lower cost to meet the needs of data-level customized applications to a degree.