MySQL: Many tables or many databases?

Question

For a project we having a bunch of data that always have the same structure and is not linked together. There are two approaches to save the data:

• Creating a n

Answer 1

Given the restrictions you've placed on it, I'd rather spin up more tables in the existing database, rather than having to connect to multiple databases. Managing connection strings TEND to be harder, in addition to managing the different database optimizations you may have.