May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
100 pages
55m
English
book
The Force.com Multitenant Architecture: Understanding the Design of Salesforce.com’s Internet Application Development Platform
by Salesforce.com
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Force.com Data Definition and Storage
Rather than attempting to manage a vast, ever-changing set of actual database structures on behalf of each application and tenant, the Force.com storage model manages “virtual” database structures using a set of metadata, data, and pivot tables, as illustrated in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Force.com’s data definition and storage model consists of a set of metadata, data, and pivot tables that allow for functional access to the actual data of “virtual” tables.
When organizations create custom application objects (i.e., custom tables), the UDD keeps track of metadata concerning the objects, their fields, relationships, ...