Re: Recommended back-end

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

Well, back-bdb was introduced in OpenLDAP 2.1. It obviously wasn't the 
preferred backend prior to that.

This should be ancient history, but we've seen time and again that old 
versions of OpenLDAP (and the old docs that go with them) are very much in 
the ether. Noting the statement "the default database is {ldbm,gdbm,ldbm 
with sleepycat}" is out of date still seems to be news to some users in 
2007. (I wish it wasn't.)

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, matthew sporleder wrote:

> When was gdbm the default backend?
>
> On 7/17/07, Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > Pretty unviable and quite a bit slower. As an aside, the "default"
> > nowadays is bdb/hdb (Sleepycat) based.
> >
> > http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/378.html
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering what the viability of switching to a MySQL-based back-end
> > > would be and how much slower it is compared to the default gdbm back-end.
> > > -Daniel
> > >