RE: OpenLDAP compared to ...

["Howard Chu" <hyc@symas.com>]

None of which is germane to any OpenLDAP mailing lists. If you want to
compare LDAP to your favorite RDBMS try ldap@umich.edu or some other forum
devoted to general data management discussions.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Kasian Franks
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:16 PM
> To: Christoph Neumann
> Cc: ingo@ingo-schaefer.de; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: OpenLDAP compared to ...
>
>
> ...and that different matter is what I'm talking
> about. A chart or two displaying quantified througput
> on record access comps between LDAP and and
> Oracle/mySQL/postgress etc...
>
> After all sometimes you have to do "silly" things in
> order to change the perception of the masses or
> satisfy a customer, who in fact will pay for a silly
> request which makes it not so $illy after all...
>
>
> --- Christoph Neumann <enigma@apu.edu> wrote:
> > 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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