--On Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:13 PM -0700 Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
(I guess this falls in line with development mailing
list more than this mailing list.) I understand that "a directory is a
specialized database optimized for reading, browsing and searching" and
not writing. That's why I opt for having dedicated RDBMS vs embedded
for distributed computing... just as enterprise applications are
developed in n-tier.
Separating the OpenLDAP frontend from the storage backend offers no
benefits; it only incurs additional costs in performance and
administration overhead. N-tier architectures make sense in large
enterprises for keeping data close to where it will be used. But they
don't offer any actual reliability benefits. Simple algebra tells you
that these designs decrease MTBF, they can never increase it.
One other point here that Howard left out, is that back-hdb was designed to
also be write efficient, not just read efficient. That's another important
piece of data to have.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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