Re: Justification for BDB vs RDBMS

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 23:58, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 4:20 pm
> Subject: Justification for BDB vs RDBMS
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > If you have a friend who is a highly skilled Oracle DBA with 20+
> > years
> > experience, how do you convince them that bdb is a better backend
> > choice than
> > back-sql?
> >
> > My argument was that bdb is extremely optimised for high read access.
> >
> > --
> > Kind Regards,
>
> Ask what OpenLDAP does that bdb can't handle, then ask what does Oracle do
> that could hinder your LDAP directory. Then ask about licencing costs.

:-)

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