Any thoughts on Multi-tenant versus Multi-database apps in Rails

Question

Our app currently spawns a new database for each client. We\'re starting to wonder whether we should consider refactoring this to a multi-tenant system.

What benefits /

Answer 1

Why would you? Do you have heavy aggregation between users or are you spawning too many DBs? Have you considered using SQLite files per tenant instead of shared DB servers (since multitenant apps often are low-profile and don't need that much concurrency)?