Multi-tenancy complicates things, and the code could be made simpler by removing it in many areas of the system. So technically, I'm for that.
However, the issue here is whether enough people depend on it. I saw multiple questions in the mailing list in the past about multi-tenancy in the past, so I'm just not sure if people depend on it or not. Maybe shooting that question in the user ML would help shed some perspective on it? With our appreciation for all the good work people are doing in their projects, I think we should be focused on OFBiz and what is best for _this_ project. If some project decides to drop multi-tenancy I don't think we should be influenced or automatically follow suit. So naming who-did-what might not important for this discussion and we need to bake our own bread. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:45 PM Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > The multi-tenants feature in OFBiz only allows a dozens or maybe even few > hundreds tenants, after it begin to be a lot of DBs! > I faced that with a startup which wanted to handle thousands, if not millions > (actually they failed), of tenants, obviously OFBiz can't do that. > > I don't break any secret to say that I was working with David (and Andrew) on > a project in 2010 when David had to quickly answer to the client's > demand who wanted to have tenants. David brilliantly and quickly delivered, > but it was only a start. > > After many improvements, this feature still have some issues > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6066 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7900 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6164 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6065 > > Also this is somehow related > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6712 > > And most importantly > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7112 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7754 > > I recently read this article > > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/architecture-constraints-end-multi-tenancy-gregor-hohpe/ > > and, after my experiences with multi-tenant as is in OFBiz, it made me wonder > if we should not think about how it's done now in OFBiz in 2018 with the > clouds being everywhere! > > Before sending this email, I quickly exchanged with David about how Moqui > handles that now. And we are on the same page, see > > https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4640689/4640689-6180851287941201924 > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41952818/does-moqui-framework-2-0-still-support-mutli-tenency?rq=1 > [1] > > [1] Initially David gave me this link > > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/multi-instance-moqui-docker-david-e-jones/ > > but it seems LinkedIn has lost it, as said in the stackoverflow comment. > > So IMO why not deprecating the multi-tenants as is now and rather push a > multi-instances way? > > Opinions? > > Jacques >
