Methods for enhancing a legacy single tenant application system to a multi-tenant application system with minimal changes
Systems and methods for accessing single-tenant databases comprising a multi-tenant aware cluster manager in communication with instances of single-tenant databases are described. The cluster manager can establish a uniform resource locator (URL) unique for each tenant to access the cluster manager. Each of the instances of single-tenant databases can include data for a corresponding tenant. The cluster manager can receive a request from a client to access a database corresponding to the first tenant. The request can include the URL established for the first tenant. The cluster manager can identify the first tenant based on the URL of the request. The cluster manager can obtain, responsive to identification of the first tenant, a tenant context of the first tenant from a storage. The cluster manager can access, using the first tenant context and responsive to the request, a first instance of the single-tenant databases corresponding to the first tenant.
1. A system for accessing single-tenant databases comprising a multi-tenant aware cluster manager in communication with a plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases, the system comprising one or more processors and a memory element storing executable instructions, which when processed by the one or more processors cause the system to:
establish a uniform resource locator (URL) unique for each tenant of a plurality of tenants to access the cluster manager, each of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases comprising data for a corresponding tenant of the plurality of tenants;
maintain a plurality of objects corresponding to each tenant of the plurality of tenants, the plurality of objects used for at least one of saving or tracking one or more states corresponding to each tenant of the plurality of tenants;
receive a request from a client of a first tenant of the plurality of tenants to modify an object stored in a database corresponding to the first tenant, the request comprising the URL established for the first tenant as a source address of the request, the source address used for identifying a source of the request;
identify, from the source address of the request to modify the object stored in the database, a tenant context including a tenant identifier of the first tenant based at least on the URL of the request;
store, in a thread-local storage accessible to the cluster manager and responsive to identifying the tenant context from the request to modify the object stored in the database, the tenant context identifying the first tenant to propagate the tenant context through one or more layers of code of the cluster manager;
obtain, responsive to the request forwarded to the cluster manager, the tenant context of the first tenant from the thread-local storage;
access, using the tenant context stored in the thread-local storage, a first instance of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases corresponding to the first tenant; and
access, via a container implemented using a hash map of the plurality of objects keyed by the tenant identifier, the object identified in the request using the tenant context stored in the thread-local storage to modify the object corresponding the request.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tenant context comprises one of information to access the first instance of the single-tenant databases or information on a state of the first tenant in connection with use of the first instance of the single-tenant databases.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the system to identify the tenant identifier based on information stored in a thread-local storage, the cluster manager maintaining a plurality of tenant contexts in a corresponding thread-local storage.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the system to access the first instance of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases corresponding to the first tenant by accessing application programming interfaces of the cluster manager using one of the tenant identifier or the tenant context stored in a local-thread storage for the first tenant.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the system to access the first instance of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases corresponding to the first tenant by accessing data from the first instance of the single-tenant databases, wherein each instance of the single-tenant databases is constructed to store data for a single tenant.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the system to receive the request from the client by receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from the client, the HTTP request comprising a header including the URL established for the first tenant.
7. A method comprising:
(a) establishing, by one or more processors in communication with a plurality of instances of single-tenant databases, a uniform resource locator (URL) unique for each tenant of a plurality of tenants to access a cluster manager, each of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases comprising data for a corresponding tenant of the plurality of tenants;
(b) maintaining, by the one or more processors, a plurality of objects corresponding to each tenant of the plurality of tenants, the plurality of objects used for at least one of saving or tracking one or more states corresponding to each tenant of the plurality of tenants;
(c) receiving, by the one or more processors, a request from a client of a first tenant of the plurality of tenants to modify an object stored in a database corresponding to the first tenant, the request comprising the URL established for the first tenant as a source address of the request, the source address used for identifying a source of the request;
(d) identifying, by the one or more processors, from the source address of the request to modify the object stored in the database, a tenant context including a tenant identifier of the first tenant based at least on the URL of the request;
(e) storing, by the one or more processors, in a thread-local storage accessible to the cluster manager and responsive to identifying the tenant context from the request to modify the object stored in the database, the tenant context identifying the first tenant to propagate the tenant context through one or more layers of code of the cluster manager;
(f) obtaining, by the one or more processors responsive to the request forwarded to the cluster manager, the tenant context of the first tenant from the thread-local storage;
(g) accessing, by the one or more processors using the tenant context stored in the thread-local storage, a first instance of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant databases corresponding to the first tenant; and
(h) accessing, by the one or more processors, via a container implemented using a hash map of the plurality of objects keyed by the tenant identifier, the object identified in the request using the tenant context stored in the thread-local storage to modify the object corresponding the request.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the tenant context comprises one of information to access the first instance of the single-tenant databases or information on a state of the first tenant in connection with use of the first instance of the single-tenant databases.
9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising identifying, by the one or more processors, the tenant context based on information stored in a thread-local storage, the cluster manager maintaining a plurality of tenant contexts in a corresponding thread-local storage.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein (g) further comprises accessing, by the one or more processors, application programming interfaces of the cluster manager using one of the tenant identifier or the tenant identifier stored in a local-thread storage for the first tenant.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein (g) further comprises accessing, by the one or more processors, data from the first instance of the single-tenant databases, wherein each instance of the single-tenant databases is constructed to store data for a single tenant.
12. The method of claim 7 , wherein (c) further comprises receiving, by the one or more processors, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from the client, the HTTP request comprising a header including the URL established for the first tenant.