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Designing a Multi-Tenant Database Schema

Updated May 4, 2026

Short answer

Architecting for shared or isolated data across clients.

Deep explanation

Choice between 'Shared Database, Shared Schema' (column-based filtering) vs 'Database-per-tenant'. Shared schema requires composite indexes on tenant_id.

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