Multi-tenant infrastructure

• US 8,819,210 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2011
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Tammam, Ariel
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R
• Application Number:
  US13/312,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20130145006A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/201, 709/202
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a multi-tenant infrastructure. In one aspect, a method includes establishing a plurality of tenant containers for a plurality of tenants, each tenant container being a logical separation of data and functionality for a multi-tenant application, each tenant container being isolated from the other tenant containers. A request is received from a client device. The request is determined to be associated with one of the tenant containers. The request is directed to the tenant container associated with the request.

Claims

1. A method performed by a system of one or more computers, the method comprising:

establishing a plurality of tenant containers for a plurality of tenants of a multi-tenant application implemented on a multi-tenant infrastructure based on a dependency injection framework, the multi-tenant infrastructure implemented in a plurality of libraries of executable software being grouped based on the dependency injection framework, each tenant container being a logical separation of data and functionality for a multi-tenant application, each tenant container being isolated from the other tenant containers;

receiving a first request from a first client device;

determining that the first request is associated with a first tenant container of the tenant containers;

directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request;

in response to directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request, executing, with a single thread, the multi-tenant application using the first tenant container and the first request;

receiving a second request different from the first request from a second client device;

determining that the second request is associated with a second tenant container of the tenant containers that is different than the first tenant container;

directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request; and

in response to directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request, executing, with the single thread executing the multi-tenant application for the first tenant container, the multi-tenant application using the second tenant container and the second request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

establishing the plurality of tenant containers includes establishing a first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and a second tenant identifier for the second tenant container,

determining that the first request is associated with the first tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the first request includes the first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and

determining that the second request is associated with a second, differing tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the second request includes the second tenant identifier for the second tenant container.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the plurality of tenant containers comprises receiving tenant information from client devices associated with each tenant, and wherein the tenant information includes one or more of:

a name, login credentials for a plurality of accounts, one or more application preferences, and payment information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each tenant container is associated with an executing virtual machine to execute the multi-tenant application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-tenant application is designed to be reentrant.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the first and the second tenant containers comprise a data cache, one or more libraries, and a data layer, and the data cache stores frequently used data for the respective tenant container, the one or more libraries comprise software routines, and the data layer provides access to a database.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the software routines comprise software routines for Object-relational mapping (ORM), creating the data cache, or handling HTTP requests.

6. A system of one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising:

establishing a plurality of tenant containers for a plurality of tenants of a multi-tenant application implemented on a multi-tenant infrastructure based on a dependency injection framework, the multi-tenant infrastructure implemented in a plurality of libraries of executable software being grouped based on the dependency injection framework, each tenant container being a logical separation of data and functionality for a multi-tenant application, each tenant container being isolated from the other tenant containers;

receiving a first request from a first client device;

determining that the first request is associated with a first tenant container of the tenant containers;

directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request

in response to directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request, executing, with a single thread, the multi-tenant application using the first tenant container and the first request;

receiving a second request different from the first request from a second client device;

determining that the second request is associated with a second tenant container of the tenant containers that is different than the first tenant container;

directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request; and

in response to directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request, executing, with the single thread executing the multi-tenant application for the first tenant container, the multi-tenant application using the second tenant container and the second request.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein

establishing the plurality of tenant containers includes establishing a first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and a second tenant identifier for the second tenant container,

determining that the first request is associated with the first tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the first request includes the first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and

determining that the second request is associated with a second, differing tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the second request includes the second tenant identifier for the second tenant container.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein establishing the plurality of tenant containers comprises receiving tenant information from client devices associated with each tenant, and wherein the tenant information includes one or more of:

a name, login credentials for a plurality of accounts, one or more application preferences, and payment information.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein each tenant container is associated with an executing virtual machine to execute the multi-tenant application.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the multi-tenant application is designed to be reentrant.

11. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

establishing a plurality of tenant containers for a plurality of tenants of a multi-tenant application implemented on a multi-tenant infrastructure based on a dependency injection framework, the multi-tenant infrastructure implemented in a plurality of libraries of executable software being grouped based on the dependency injection framework, each tenant container being a logical separation of data and functionality for a multi-tenant application, each tenant container being isolated from the other tenant containers;

receiving a first request from a first client device;

determining that the first request is associated with a first tenant container of the tenant containers;

directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request;

in response to directing the first request to the first tenant container associated with the first request, executing, with a single thread, the multi-tenant application using the first tenant container and the first requests;

receiving a second request different from the first request from a second client device;

determining that the second request is associated with a second tenant container of the tenant containers that is different than the first tenant container;

directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request; and

in response to directing the second request to the second tenant container associated with the second request, executing, with the single thread executing the multi-tenant application for the first tenant container, the multi-tenant application using the second tenant container and the second request.

12. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein

establishing the plurality of tenant containers includes establishing a first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and a second tenant identifier for the second tenant container,

determining that the first request is associated with the first tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the first request includes the first tenant identifier for the first tenant container, and

determining that the second request is associated with a second, differing tenant container of the tenant containers includes determining that the second request includes the second tenant identifier for the second tenant container.

13. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein establishing the plurality of tenant containers comprises receiving tenant information from client devices associated with each tenant, and wherein the tenant information includes one or more of:

a name, login credentials for a plurality of accounts, one or more application preferences, and payment information.

14. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein each tenant container is associated with an executing virtual machine to execute the multi-tenant application.

15. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein the multi-tenant application is designed to be reentrant.