Re: Comparisons between OpenLDAP and other Directory Servers

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:08 PM -0500 Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net> 
wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > --On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:57 PM -0800 Gaurav Khanna
> > <khannapost@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have searched on the web and have found some comparisons between the
> > > various Directory Servers including OpenLDAP. I was wondering if there
> > > is a comparison or performance document that is recommeded by experieced
> > > users of  OpenLDAP.
> >
> > I have done benchmarking of OpenLDAP in comparison Netscape & SunOne.
> > Unfortunately, Symas cannot (because of the SunOne license) post the
> > results  of the SunOne results.  You can see the results vs. Netscape
> > here:
> >
> > <http://www.symas.com/benchmark.shtml>
>
> Quanah,
>
> I find your research very nice, although I think that a fairer comparison
> would be between the operating systems on same platforms. Solaris and
> Linux run on both x86 and sparc platforms.  It would also be nice to use
> Solaris 10 in this comparison which promises performance improvements.

The point of the Solaris vs. Linux comparison is for someone looking to 
deploy a directory service, and will be buying new servers.  How much bang 
will you get for your buck? etc.

I would certainly be willing to do other benchmarks if such a work order 
was placed with Symas.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Engineer
Symas Corporation
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