What is meant by a shared database?

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Shared Databases provide a synchronized storage location accessible by multiple concurrent users. Two types of Shared Databases are available in Geneious. Your Geneious license will provide access to set up a standard Shared Database using Direct SQL Connection without additional costs. 21 сент. 2021 г.

What is a shared database?

A Shared Database allows you to store your documents in your favorite relational (SQL) database rather than on the file system. This means that multiple users can concurrently use the same synchronized storage location without any problems.

What is the advantage of shared database?

Collaboration. Data sharing encourages more connection and collaboration between researchers, which can result in important new findings within the field. In a time of reduced monetary investment for science and research, data sharing is more efficient because it allows researchers to share resources.

In the shared-database-per-service pattern, the same database is shared by several microservices. You need to carefully assess the application architecture before adopting this pattern, and make sure that you avoid hot tables (single tables that are shared among multiple microservices).

Is shared database Antipattern?

Why a shared database is considered an anti-pattern in the microservice architecture. Data sovereignty is a rule that states that each microservice owns its domain data and logic. Other microservices that wanted to access or modify that data, will need to pass for the microservice itself for doing it.

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