Hi Lorenzo,
There are many companies that are developing product that uses directory servers as a 'generic' hierarchical data store. Not later than yesterday I was discussing with a company that replaced a SQL database with an LDAP directory server (not OpenLDAP though). The main benefit for them was to have the replication of the data in all of their boxes, simplifying their development and the deployments for their customers. They are even considering leveraging replication as a signaling mechanisms for specific events between the different components of their complex system.
Regards,
Ludovic.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Lorenzo Pastrana wrote:
Hello list,
I was wondering lately if I could use OpenLDAP as a 'generic' hierarchical data store for the application I'm planning, and tried to get any hint about feasibility. I found a blog post about OpenDS (http://blogs.sun.com/treydrake/entry/ldap_vs_relational_database), where the author states about Read/write performance parity ... That was the kind of news I just wanted to hear because I'm thinking about a persistence back-end, not just an almost static dataset, but I'm in a genuine PHP environment and Java is not an option; so I naturally tried to get some infos regarding OpenLDAP performance but found nothing recent, and the references I could find are quite discouraging on that matter ...
However since 4 to 8 years have passed since the tests I've been reading, I'm still in the hope of a 'a pleasant surprise' as the sun guy sayz ...
Does someone has an experience to share about that kind of (mis-)usage of OpenLDAP ?
Any pointers to some good and recent reference on the matter are of course well come.
Thanks in advance for any information.
LP
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