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by mvdtnz 855 days ago
Do we know for sure if gitlab cloud uses a multi-tenanted database, or a db per user/customer/org? In my experience products that offer both a self hosted and cloud product tend to prefer a database per customer, as this greatly simplifies the shared parts of the codebase, which can use the same queries regardless of the hosting type.

If they use a db per customer then no one will ever approach those usage limits and if they do they would be better suited to a self hosted solution.
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tcnj 854 days ago
Unless something has substantially changed since I last checked, gitlab.com is essentially self-hosted gitlab ultimate with a few feature flags to enable some marginally different behaviour. That is, it uses one multitennant DB for the whole platform.
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karolist 854 days ago
Not according to [1] where the author said

> This effectively results in two code paths in many parts of your platform: one for the SaaS version, and one for the self-hosted version. Even if the code is physically the same (i.e. you provide some sort of easy to use wrapper for self-hosted installations), you still need to think about the differences.

1. https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-...

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Maxion 854 days ago
I've toyed with various SaaS designs and multi tenanted databses always come to th forefront of my mind. It seems to simplify the architecture a lot.
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