<quote who="Mike Bloom"> > Hi, > > I've been using ldap for a few years now, but I've come to the > realization that I have a lot of mysql databases lying around that > should be integrated and unified. Its time to move to something more > robust. > > I'm using openldap-24 and am thrilled with the responsiveness and > extensibility of the software, but I'm curious about using mysql as a > back end instead of bdb. > > I've been able get unixODBC up and running without any problems, but I'm > stumbling a bit over the 10,000 foot view on metadata and how to > generate metadata to insert a samba 3 object. > > After skimming for a few days, I found this lovely overview > (http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/978.html) which didn't inspire a > lot of confidence in how easy it would be to support abstract schemas > that we might want to host on this system. > > > From this discussion and subsequent threads > (http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200511/msg00504.html) , > I'm concerns about the practicality and that I might have unrealistic > expectations for being able to deploy 250k records on my mysql cluster > to service a series of ldap servers over back-sql. > > Does anyone run back-sql in production, and what kind of records on what > scale of system are you using ? > > I have high confidence that I want to use ldap, but I'd rather right > provisioning software that talks to a mysql database than to talk to the > ldap database. To make things more complicated, I suspect we will be > moving to oracle in the next few years.
I don't mean to sound cheeky or rude, but have you the great page about RDBMS vs Directories below? http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=rdbms&file=378 It might help in your decision. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
