Database company TmaxTibero said on Feb. 12 it is stepping up a dual multi-tenancy strategy that lets customers choose whether to share resources depending on business needs.

Multi-tenancy allows multiple tenants to be hosted on a single database platform at the same time, but requirements differ widely in real deployment environments. In settings such as finance and the public sector, where stability and regulatory compliance are important, the priority is blocking the impact of failures across tenants. In SaaS and cloud service environments, the structure needs to enable fast expansion while reducing the number of servers and operating costs. Rather than binding these opposing needs into a single structure, Tibero presents different approaches based on whether resources are shared.

For environments that must fundamentally prevent a failure from spreading to other services, or that place top priority on tenant isolation due to regulatory requirements, it focuses on an approach that does not share resources. For environments that must operate large numbers of databases at scale, or where service expansion speed and resource utilisation are important, it offers an approach that shares resources.

Kyung-hee Park (박경희), chief executive of TmaxTibero, said, "It is difficult for multi-tenancy to meet all customer needs with a single approach." She said, "The core of the Tibero strategy is not to force a single multi-tenancy model, but to allow customers to choose a structure that fits their environment. Through this, we will support different needs for stability and efficiency at the same time."