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)

Paper ID: he14420f64b4a1e97
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 8.0519909e-05
Overall Rank: 2,758 | 81.46%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559942

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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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738	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014334201
893	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013220089
3,237	Characterizing Tenant Behavior for Placement and Crisis Mitigation in Multitenant DBMSs	2013	SIGMOD	7.5017163e-05
6,753	Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities	2022	SIGMOD	5.6904085e-05
8,589	Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles?	2010	VLDB	5.3073557e-05
9,451	CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization	2025	SIGMOD	5.1749657e-05
10,319	Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud	2016	VLDB	5.0351368e-05
10,355	A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce	2026	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
10,947	Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,764	Slicing Long-Running Queries	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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