Multi tenant systems

It provides
1. isolation of data between tenants
2. option of using separate databases
3. option of setting individual time zones and locale settings
Has specifications like
1. multi-tenant systems tend to require less system memory than individual hybris Commerce Suite installations.
is used in
1. hosting a hybris Commerce Suite to several individual customers
2. one single, corporate-wide hybris Commerce Suite serving individual countries with individual product and customer data
3. using the hybris Commerce's CMS module to power country-specific versions of a company website
Tenants allow customizing
1. the time zone (and, by consequence, the date)
2. The data base in use
  1. database URL
  2. database driver
  3. database user and password
3. the available active extensions
4. currency
5. currency format
6. date format
Has somes constraints like
1. all tenants necessarily use the same hybris Commerce Suite version
There are two kinds of tenants
1. Master tenant
  1. Uses the database connection specified in project.properties
  2. Is created Automatically
  3. Cannot be removed
2. Slave tenant
  1. Any number is allowed
Creating new tenants
1. Tenants need to be configured in the project.properties or local.properties file.
Initializa the master tenant must be done before initialize the slave tenants
Tips
1. To avoid issues with the length of database table names, the hybris Platform limits the name length of tenants to a maximum of five (5) characters.

Resource summary

	Created by oscarugoster about 10 years ago