<quote who="Mike Bloom"> > Gavin Henry wrote: >> <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. >> >> > Thanks Gavin, > > That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I appreciate your > time. >
No, no, we should appreciate the time of the people that wrote that FAQ page! ;-) Cheers. -- 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/
