Can you create a separate db + multi schema variation?

[tosehee]

Can you create a separate db + multi schema variation?

For example, one tenant might use the db by itself, but smaller tenants may reside in the same db, but in its own schema.

[tosehee]

I'd assume this is very similar to the database branch. But must create the map of Tenant ID to DataSource, and call the "setCatalog" on the Connection before it's returned.

Other than, do you see any other things that need to be incorporated?

[tosehee]

ping

[beskow]

You're right, the two patterns can be combined just like you describe. In https://callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik/2022/03/26/multi-tenancy-with-spring-boot-part7/ I describe a similar, hybrid pattern (combining the database-per-tenant with shared-database to achieve sharding.