# Any Plans to Support Sharding for Individual Tenants?

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 13, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033 "2025-05-13T16:29:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhanshew72](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dhanshew72/32/1809_2.png) [@dhanshew72](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/dhanshew72)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033/1 "2025-05-13T16:29:01Z")

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I like the idea of isolating data, but each tenant is treated as a shard which becomes difficult if a single tenants data starts growing significantly because it’s isolated to a single node. This makes it difficult to horizontally scale a cluster with multi-tenancy as I’m capped to resources on a node. The only workaround I’m aware of is to swap to filtering to operate the same way, but requires reloading all the data.

Is sharding for tenants in the pipeline or should I look towards swapping towards filtering instead of tenants?

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**Author:** ![Shahin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/shahin/32/7944_2.png) [@Shahin](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Shahin)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033/2 "2025-06-12T11:39:53Z")

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Hey @dhanshew72,

You are correct in your understanding, in Weaviate’s current multi-tenancy implementation, each tenant is isolated to a single shard, and that shard resides on a single node. This means that if a tenant’s data grows significantly, it is limited by the resources of that node, and Weaviate does not currently support distributing a single tenant’s data across multiple nodes (i.e., sharding within a tenant).

I would add this as feature request - go to our github and submit a feature request with that please:

> **[Issues · weaviate/weaviate](https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/issues)**
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> Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of ...

Best regards,

**Mohamed Shahin**  
Weaviate Support Engineer  
(Ireland, GMT/UTC timezone)

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**Author:** ![Balaji\_Selvaraj](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/balaji_selvaraj/32/7585_2.png) [@Balaji\_Selvaraj](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Balaji_Selvaraj)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033/3 "2025-08-21T11:33:52Z")

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Hi @Shahin ,

We are also facing same case in our cluster setup. Is there any workaround available for this case

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**Author:** ![Shahin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/shahin/32/7944_2.png) [@Shahin](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Shahin)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/any-plans-to-support-sharding-for-individual-tenants/21033/4 "2025-08-21T11:49:38Z")

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Hey @Balaji_Selvaraj,

Welcome to our community and it’s lovely to have you here 🤗

We do not support this yet.

Could you please submit a feature request to be voted for?

Best regards,

**Mohamed Shahin**  
Weaviate Support Engineer  
(Ireland, GMT/UTC timezone)