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by urban_winter 677 days ago
> For anything more complex than an anonymous online flower shop, it is simpler to partition the whole thing off – for each customer/tenant.

Is this really a viable approach at the scale of B2B SaaS like Salesforce (or, contextually, Algolia)? They would end up with literally 10s of 1000s of DBs. That is surely cost-prohibitive.