On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> ..
> > > Even iPlanet uses DBM/Sleepycat backend files. The only LDAP server I know
> > > of that uses SQL is the Oracle Internet Directory (bundled in Oracle
> > > 8.1.7.1 and 9i) but iPlanet is still faster.
> >
> > OpenLDAP 2.x has provisions for SQL Backends. Alas the rumors were not
> > rumors at all!
>
> Alas, if you check the docs.. the provisions don't mean the same as
> "production capable." =( I seem to have read about these SQL backends
> somewhere, but the DOCUMENTATION doesn't mention it at all, the only
> available database type is LDBM.
Aha! But its existence doesn't mean it's an urban legend! \8)
>
> Besides, MySQL and PostgreSQL don't really inspire my confidence.
>
Coming from an oracle bigot, that's quite expected \8} But most people
don't have the dinero for Oracle anyway, so there... Poor man's ldap and
poor man's sql + poor man's software raid + poor man's OS = kick ass
solution...!
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