Max Tables & Design Pattern

Question

I am working on an app right now which has the potential to grow quite large. The whole application runs through a single domain, with customers being given sub-domains, wh

Answer 1

Are you planning to develop a Cloud App?

I think that you don´t need to make tables or data bases by customer. I recommend you to use a more scalable relational database management system. Personally I don´t know the capabilities of MySQL, but i´m pretty sure that it should support distributed data base model in order to handle the load.

creating tables or databases per customer can lead you to a maintenance nightmare.

I have worked with multi-company databases and every table contains customer ids and to access its data we develop views per customer (for reporting purposes)

Good luck,