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I would still consider it a multi-tenant system. It's a single database to manage, which distributes your customers using their identity as a partitioning key.

It’s multi tenant —- you have 10,000,000 customers with 1,000,000 each on 10 servers, for example.

Or I don’t understand what you mean…

No, a single database manages multiple customers but the customers are distributed among multiple databases.