CadaML: A Modeling Language for Multi-Tenant Cloud Application Data Architectures

Abstract

Multi-tenancy is used for efficient resource utilization when cloud resources are shared across multiple customers. In cloud applications, the data layer is often the prime candidate for multi-tenancy, and usually comprises a combination of different cloud storage solutions such as relational and non-relational databases, and blob storage. Each of these storage types is different, requiring its own partitioning schemes to ensure tenant isolation and scalability. Current multi-tenant data architectures are implemented mainly through manual coding techniques that tend to be time consuming and error prone. As an alternative, we propose a domain-specific modeling language, CadaML, that provides concepts and notations to model a multi-tenant data architecture in an abstract way. CadaML also provides tools to validate the data architecture and automatically produce application code to implement said architecture.