[OJFord]

What's the DBMS? We moved in the other direction with postgres, merged multiple databases to simply have a schema per service/application instead. All the advantages with none of the disadvantages, imo. (We then had a single database per running test/dev environment, rather than multiple.) Of course, that's a pg thing, if you use MySQL for example it's not an option.

[consumer451]

Yes, we are using postgres and my plan was to use separate schemas, if going the single db route.

The only thing that worried me is that one product might need SOC 2 sooner than another. I thought separate databases would give a smaller compliance surface to worry about. However, this will be my first time going through this process, so I am pretty uninformed here.

[dfee]

i think this is aligned with the author's choice. a separate schema is effectively a separate database (from a product eng perspective) with shared infra.