Re: OpenLDAP compared to ...

[Christoph Neumann <enigma@apu.edu>]

Yeah.  And while they are at it, does someone have a comparison between 
LDAP and a filesystem...after all, they both store data.  Hey, how about 
LDAP and a file cabinet? or LDAP and a PDA?

LDAP is completely different from an RDBMS.  It has a different purpose.  
It has different ways of organizing information.  It's silly to do
performance comparisons between the two.  Now if you want to understand
the difference between LDAP and an RDBMS, that's a different matter....

- Christoph


On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Kasian Franks wrote:

> Does someone have a list of info pointers with
> performance comparisons between LDAP and RDBMS's?
> 
> 
> --- Ingo Schaefer <ingo@ingo-schaefer.de> wrote:
> > Hello, Rick wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > [..]
> > > Also, I'm wondering about comparison in
> > performance between LDAP to
> > > access information versus, say, Apache+PHP+MySQL. 
> > I really have no
> > > idea, but suspect that LDAP might look pale when
> > it comes to
> > > writing.  Any info or experiences on this front?
> > 
> > You are right.
> > Directory Services and LDAP-Servers are designed to
> > provide very fast 
> > read access to information (some times faster than
> > any RDBMS).
> > The price for the read-speed is a much lower
> > write-performance.
> > 
> > hth
> > Ingo Schaefer
> 
> 
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