# Database-per-User Architecture With Shared Application Environments: How and Why

DevFeed: [Database-per-User Architecture With Shared Application Environments: How and Why](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/database-per-user-architecture-with-shared-application-environments-how-and-why-5791.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/shared-application-environment>)

Author: Dian M Fay

Published: 2024-10-18T15:41:57Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Per-user Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/per-user-database.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architectures.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [password](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/password.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines shared application environments as a classic SaaS approach within database-per-user architectures. It explains the simplicity and flexibility of deploying one application environment for all users, while discussing trade-offs involving software version control, schema consistency, data residency, geographic proximity, multi-region deployment, access patterns, and customer authentication.

## Source excerpt

Neon works best with a project-per-user architecture, but there's more than one way to design, implement, and manage this. Each of the two main strategies has different advantages and drawbacks. Today, we're going to talk about the one that most resembles what you might think of...