DataBase Consideration for E-commerce

  • HI ,

    Im currently working on E-commerce website and just wondered whether to have two separate database for website and webservices layer (business process layer). I hope in this way we can separate two different business process and achieve greater control. let me know your thoughts on this.

    Ta

  • Might not be a bad idea. I haven't tested something like that, but it would seem that it would allow for easier scale-out.

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  • If they might need to scale to separate servers, I might. Otherwise, not sure there's a benefit. You could use a schema for security, multiple disks for performance.

  • Thank you very much guys.

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