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One Datastore per MicroService?

This article represents details on whether to use single datastore per microservice. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.

From what I researched, the preferred architecture for microservices is polyglot persistence pattern. (http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html ). You could further read about this on following pages:

As per the best practices, each micro-service should have one database private to it. There are different ways to achieve the above objective. Some of them are listed below:

  • Same database system for different services. In this following could be done:
    • Different set of tables specific to microservice in the same database
    • Different database schema but in the same database server
    • Different database server
  • Each service can use different database systems. For example, RDBMS, MongoDB etc.

Following diagram represents one datastore per microservice. (courtesy: MartinFowler page on MSA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following is another page representing MSA best practices from NetFlix. It highlights creating separate datastore for each microservice.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/microservices-at-netflix-architectural-best-practices/

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