is confined to the tenant’s database and isolated from other tenants and their data. Shared database - Sharded. Multiple tenants share one of multiple databases. A distinct set of tenants is assigned to each database by using a partitioning strategy such as hash, range, or list partitioning. This data distribution strategy often is referred to as Sharding. Shared database-single. A single, sometimes large, database contains data for all tenants, which are disambiguated in a tenant ID column.