What is the difference between a tenant and a database in the common DB structure?

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At first I thought that a tenant would be a new DB here I could separate the data from different clients(I know that this is adding a physical shard), but I found that in a class(or index) I can have multiple tenants what is the advantage then if the tenant is used to share multiple indexes instead of isolate them?

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Hi!

Each tenant will have it’s own index, and isolated physical shard.

This is specially helpful when you want to delete a tenant entirely or just put it on COLD state (saving resources).

Also, crud operations on one tenant will not affect the other ones.

Our CTO gave a really nice talk about this subject:

Let me know if that helps :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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Thank you, yes it did help!

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