The Design of the Force.com Multitenant Internet Application Development Platform
Summary: Force.com: on-demand app development platform for 55k+ organizations, built on a metadata-driven, multitenant architecture for Internet-scale SaaS. Defines multitenancy, its benefits, and argues metadata-driven design as the premier approach to scalable, manageable SaaS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 892 | Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00015559876 |
| 1,121 | Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00013856011 |
| 3,479 | Characterizing Tenant Behavior for Placement and Crisis Mitigation in Multitenant DBMSs | 2013 | SIGMOD | 7.0539055e-05 |
| 7,296 | Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.7723197e-05 |
| 8,136 | Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? | 2010 | VLDB | 4.5775272e-05 |
| 9,946 | Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud | 2016 | VLDB | 4.2431724e-05 |
| 9,987 | A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce | 2026 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,403 | CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,278 | Slicing Long-Running Queries | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
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