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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Authors
- 1. Craig D Weissman (Salesforce)
- 2. Steve Bobrowski (Salesforce)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{weissman_sigmod09,
title = {{The Design of the Force.com Multitenant Internet Application Development Platform}},
author = {Weissman, Craig D and Bobrowski, Steve},
series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559942},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559942},
year = {2009}
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| 741 | Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00014442062 |
| 902 | Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00013328979 |
| 3,259 | Characterizing Tenant Behavior for Placement and Crisis Mitigation in Multitenant DBMSs | 2013 | SIGMOD | 7.5892257e-05 |
| 6,939 | Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.7338637e-05 |
| 8,431 | Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? | 2010 | VLDB | 5.4259744e-05 |
| 10,098 | Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud | 2016 | VLDB | 5.1498503e-05 |
| 10,134 | A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,689 | CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,473 | Slicing Long-Running Queries | 2010 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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