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280 Multi-tenancy (MT)

Course overview

Pre-requisites

This course is self-contained. However, we recommend that you go through one of the 101-level courses, such as that for working with text, your own vectors, or multimodal data.

Multi-tenancy allows you to create a Weaviate collection containing a high number of lightweight "tenants".

Tenants are designed to house isolated, identical data structures. This is suitable for use cases such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) type applications, where each end user's data can be backed by a tenant. Tenants can be managed independently, and their data can be offloaded to cold storage to reduce memory and disk usage.

This course introduces you to multi-tenancy. It teaches you how to enable and configure a multi-tenant collection in Weaviate, as well as how to work with tenants and tenant data.

Learning objectives

  Here, we will cover:

Learning Goals
  • Understand multi-tenancy concepts and their application in Weaviate
  • Learn how to set up and manage multi-tenant collections for scalable applications
  • Master techniques for efficient resource management in multi-tenant environments

  By the time you are finished, you will be able to:

Learning Outcomes
  • Explain the concept of multi-tenancy and its benefits in Weaviate
  • Set up a Weaviate instance and configure collections for multi-tenancy
  • Create, manage, and remove tenants in a multi-tenant collection
  • Perform data operations and queries specific to individual tenants
  • Implement efficient resource management using tenant activity states
  • Utilize advanced features like auto-tenant creation, activation, and offloading
  • Apply multi-tenancy concepts to real-world scenarios for improved scalability and data isolation

Units

1. An overview of multi-tenancy

Theory

Learn what multi-tenancy is and how it helps to build scalable production applications.

2. Multi-tenant setup

Practical

Set up a Weaviate instance and configure collections for multi-tenant usage.

3. Work with tenants and data

Practical

Learn how to manage tenants and their data in a multi-tenant collection.

4. Manage tenant states and resources

Practical

Learn how to efficiently manage tenant states and optimize resource usage.