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At scale? It's not only usually unnecessary, it's a bad application<->data model, and will lead to fractured code, deploy processes, and bit rot. Depending on design.

Remember that a database is supposed to be shared. It's designed that way for performance reasons. If your big issue is you're constantly doing flyway and it's unmanageable, go schemaless, or refactor where/when/how you place your data. Rethink the architecture/design, not the tool. If it's a microservice-based application, remember that you are supposed to have independent state per service, so there shouldn't be one giant database anyway.

But for like 12 customers, sure, go for it. It's very common for "whale" accounts to get dedicated infra/databases while the rest get a common sharded layer.




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