The Road To Serverless: Multi-tenancy

Large-scale database services with thousands of tenant clusters require a clear distinction between hot and cold data. One solution is to deploy a container platform that utilizes virtualization to make resource allocation more flexible, although the issue of cost sharing still remains. Another solution is to employ a sharing-based approach that allows for efficient resource utilization, but customization and maintenance may be challenging. TiDB Serverless enables multiple tenants to share a physical cluster while maintaining logical isolation. It achieves lower costs per user by sharing resources among multiple users.