What I understand out of MDS is that it's a listing of your mission critical data in a single place. I create a model called "Clients", then I create an entity called "MXClients". This entity contains simple attributes as Code, Name, AddressLine1, AddressLine2, CityName, StateName, CountryName and Zipcode. This is very straight forward, I see no complexity here.
Enterprise use case -
I've a few departments in my organization, each department has it's own database say, Sales, Finance, HR etc. Each of these databases has a table called "MXClients" with very much the same columns as the MDS Entity above.
Questions -
1) My question is how do I link these different databases to my MDS model so that a real time sync could be obtained? If I change "AddressLine1" of a particular client in Sales database. It should automatically reflect to all the other databases(Finance and HR ones) and MDS as well.
2) Can this be configured? If this cannot be done, why should I look for using MDS; I can very well have a new DB and treat that as a centralized data store.