Re: Fw: How useful is oracle internet directory server?

["Mark Wilcox" <mark@mjwilcox.com>]

Hi,
I just found this quote from Dave Boreham, an engineer at Netscape:

Note that the relationship is commutative. BDB2 was originally
developed for Netscape, for the Directory Server, and there
are features in BDB2 specifically put there for the benefit of the
Directory Server. The original NT port of BDB2 was also
done by Netscape. The work continues, BDB3 has more features
designed to aid Directory Server implementation.

Thus another reason why you don't need a RDBMS for LDAP.

mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Giovanni Baruzzi <giovanni.baruzzi@allianz-leben.de>
To: Bharat Tewari <tewari@wipinfo.soft.net>
Cc: Open-LDAP General <openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: How useful is oracle internet directory server?


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>Bharat Tewari wrote:
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>> <?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>Hi
>> I just read somewhere that oracle has come out with Internet directory
>> server where basically its the open ldap server code and the backend
>> database is oracle. Now as per my understanding, the RDBMS and
>> directory service are two different paradigms so what exactly is the
>> advantage oracle is going to get with this move?
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>Sure RDBMS and LDAP are very distant.
>But wer have so many RDBMS applications that we want to use and we don't
>have neither time or money to rewrite them completely, that every chance
>in integration is welcomed.
>The fact that the data repository of LDAP lies in the same Database as
>my application greatly enhances the possiblities of intergration. One
>can think of stored procedures to maintain application tables while
>updating LDAP or retrieving "Legacy Data" while accessing LDAP.
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>> Secondly how ldap and e-commerce are related?
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>LDAP is infrastrucutre that you need to collect the data about your
>customers, their authentication, their rights, their settings.
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>> Can somebody give me a good pointer on various e-commerce products
>> that use ldap and how does the relational database as a backend
>> advantageous(if it is!!).
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>I have no pointers.
>About RDBMS: they are a very good way to organize data in tables. Is a
>mature technology and today very effective.
>We need data in tables; LDAP would not be the ideal solution here.
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>> If anyone of you is planning on this direction and can throw some
>> light without violating patents, copyrights or confidentiality it
>> would be really helpful to me.
>> Thx
>> bharat
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>My 0.5 cents
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>Giovanni Baruzzi
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