Jacobs, DeanAulbach, StefanKemper, AlfonsSchöning, HaraldRose, ThomasJarke, MatthiasSeidl, ThomasQuix, ChristophBrochhaus, Christoph2020-02-112020-02-112007978-3-88579-197-3https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/31821This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-tenancy to handle high traffic volumes at low cost. It then outlines the main requirements on multi-tenant databases: scale up by consolidating multiple tenants onto the same server and scale out by providing an administrative framework that manages a farm of such servers. Finally it describes three approaches to implementing multi-tenant databases and compares them based on some simple experiments. The main conclusion is that existing database vendors need to enhance their products to better support multi-tenancy.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468