Weaviate v1.20: Native Multi-Tenancy Support for Millions of Tenants

AI Impact Summary

Weaviate is introducing native multi-tenancy support, enabling the platform to scale to millions of tenants with 10s of thousands of active tenants per node. This addresses limitations of previous approaches like Classes and filters, which struggled to handle large-scale deployments. The new architecture utilizes lightweight shards and tenant-specific indexing to provide isolation, performance, and efficient GDPR-compliant data deletion, crucial for applications like ACME Accounting Group managing millions of customers.