Patrick Laimbock wrote:
Finally, if you are going to do anything serious with OpenLDAP it has
been recommended repeatedly on this list that one should use the latest
version which currently is 2.4.39. And maybe think about using MDB
instead of HDB/BDB
Not just "maybe". LMDB is about reliability too, not just performance. I just
found this presentation from http://wisdom.cs.wisc.edu/ testing software crash
vulnerabilities. LMDB comes out with 0 silent data loss, 0 corruption issues.
BerkeleyDB - multiple issues. (Prez from May 2014)
http://wisdom.cs.wisc.edu/workshops/spring-14/talks/Thanu.pdf
There are multiple reasons why OpenLDAP is abandoning BerkeleyDB. Performance
was only one of many.
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-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
