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Support multi-tenant multi-database for outbox and inbox patterns for the distributed event bus

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Description

https://github.com/abpframework/abp/pull/10008 adds inbox & outbox patterns to the distributed event bus. However, it doesn't support multi-tenancy with a tenant has a dedicated database. We don't support it since it is not feasible. To make inbox/outbox consistent, we should save the message within the same database that is related to the event publishing/handling logic. The essential problem is in the background thread that publishes/processes outbox/inbox events. If we have thousands of databases, it would be a real problem to read events from these databases and publish/process. Also, we should dynamically re-arrange background worker threads for new created or deleted tenants.

That's really complicated. For a reference, the CAP library doesn't support this scenario (https://github.com/dotnetcore/CAP/issues/699). It also doesn't support multiple db scenario (https://github.com/dotnetcore/CAP/issues/998), but ABP supports it currently, so it works good for a modular system where each module has its own db.

I am opening a backlog item. I could not find a system that scales for multi-db multi-tenant scenario, but we may implement a limited solution where it works with low number of different tenant database but can't work as performant with high number of databases ( I don't know how many is low and high yet :) ).

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Research direction

Start by reviewing PR #10008 and the linked CAP issues to understand the existing inbox/outbox behavior and known multi-database limitations. Define a bounded solution for tenant-specific databases, including how background processing handles tenant creation and deletion; the issue does not yet specify a performance threshold or implementation entry point.

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Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend, databases, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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