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Re: Is back-sql production ready ?
<quote who="Mike Bloom">
> Gavin Henry wrote:
>> <quote who="Mike Bloom">
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been using ldap for a few years now, but I've come to the
>>> realization that I have a lot of mysql databases lying around that
>>> should be integrated and unified. Its time to move to something more
>>> robust.
>>>
>>> I'm using openldap-24 and am thrilled with the responsiveness and
>>> extensibility of the software, but I'm curious about using mysql as a
>>> back end instead of bdb.
>>>
>>> I've been able get unixODBC up and running without any problems, but
>>> I'm
>>> stumbling a bit over the 10,000 foot view on metadata and how to
>>> generate metadata to insert a samba 3 object.
>>>
>>> After skimming for a few days, I found this lovely overview
>>> (http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/978.html) which didn't inspire
>>> a
>>> lot of confidence in how easy it would be to support abstract schemas
>>> that we might want to host on this system.
>>>
>>>
>>> From this discussion and subsequent threads
>>> (http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200511/msg00504.html)
>>> ,
>>> I'm concerns about the practicality and that I might have unrealistic
>>> expectations for being able to deploy 250k records on my mysql cluster
>>> to service a series of ldap servers over back-sql.
>>>
>>> Does anyone run back-sql in production, and what kind of records on
>>> what
>>> scale of system are you using ?
>>>
>>> I have high confidence that I want to use ldap, but I'd rather right
>>> provisioning software that talks to a mysql database than to talk to
>>> the
>>> ldap database. To make things more complicated, I suspect we will be
>>> moving to oracle in the next few years.
>>>
>>
>> I don't mean to sound cheeky or rude, but have you the great page about
>> RDBMS vs Directories below?
>>
>> http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=rdbms&file=378
>>
>> It might help in your decision.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> Thanks Gavin,
>
> That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I appreciate your
> time.
>
No, no, we should appreciate the time of the people that wrote that FAQ
page! ;-)
Cheers.
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