System, method, and medium for facilitating auction-based resource sharing for message queues in an on-demand services environment

A method comprising:

• receiving, by an auction device in a multi-tenant database environment, a bid for a job request from a first tenant of multiple tenants, wherein the bid offers one or more credits for obtaining a set of resources to perform a job associated with the job request;
• facilitating, by the auction device, an auction to exchange the one or more credits for acquiring the set of resources to perform the job for the first tenant;
• determining, by the auction device, a fair allocation of the set of resources in exchange for the one or more credits based on results of the auction and one or more priorities associated with at least one of the first tenant and a job type of the job, wherein the one or more priorities are based on at least one of a frequency at which the first tenant places bids for job requests, and an expected runtime for performing the job of the job type;
• and
• performing, by the auction device, the fair allocation of the set of resources to the first tenant such that the job is performed using the set of resources, wherein the set of resources include one or more of unallocated resources, purchased resources fairly allocated to and sold by a second tenant, and relinquished resources unfairly allocated to and relinquished by a third tenant.

A database system comprising:

• a data processing system including an auction device in a multi-tenant database environment, wherein the auction device to:
• receive a bid for a job request from a first tenant of multiple tenants, wherein the bid offers one or more credits for obtaining a set of resources to perform a job associated with the job request;
• facilitate an auction to exchange the one or more credits for acquiring the set of resources to perform the job for the first tenant;
• determine a fair allocation of the set of resources in exchange for the one or more credits based on results of the auction and one or more priorities associated with at least one of the first tenant and a job type of the job, wherein the one or more priorities are based on at least one of a frequency at which the first tenant places bids for job requests, and an expected runtime for performing the job of the job type;
• and
• perform the fair allocation of the set of resources to the first tenant such that the job is performed using the set of resources, wherein the set of resources include one or more of unallocated resources, purchased resources fairly allocated to and sold by a second tenant, and relinquished resources unfairly allocated to and relinquished by a third tenant.

At least one computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a computing device in a multi-tenant database environment, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a bid for a job request from a first tenant of multiple tenants, wherein the bid offers one or more credits for obtaining a set of resources to perform a job associated with the job request;
• facilitating an auction to exchange the one or more credits for acquiring the set of resources to perform the job for the first tenant;
• determining a fair allocation of the set of resources in exchange for the one or more credits based on results of the auction and one or more priorities associated with at least one of the first tenant and a job type of the job, wherein the one or more priorities are based on at least one of a frequency at which the first tenant places bids for job requests, and an expected runtime for performing the job of the job type;
• and
• performing the fair allocation of the set of resources to the first tenant such that the job is performed using the set of resources, wherein the set of resources include one or more of unallocated resources, purchased resources fairly allocated to and sold by a second tenant, and relinquished resources unfairly allocated to and relinquished by a third tenant.