Re: sorry, another "LDAP vs RDBMS" question!

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

	If you're trying to do the actual orders in the directory, you're
going to suffer from a horribly low maximum order rate.  LDAP might be
good for doing account management (assuming you don't get a lot of
accounts created over a short period of time), and probably good for
product management (assuming you don't change your products a lot), but
I'd say it'd definitely be bad for online transactions.  Think of LDAP as
a read-mostly database.

# I am building a ecommerce site that will integrate the products of 20+ 
# companies into one single on-line order catalog.  (Yeah, one of those 
# ecommerce pipe dreams for now)  Because each individual company has 
# permission to update its products, view orders for its products, link 
# products to categories,  the application has heavy duty access control 
# requirements.  I want to put the whole system into a ldap directory.  This 
# would include orders, customers, products, categories, etc.  BUT, I keep 
# reading the people make the mistake of putting too much in ldap directory. 
#  But I am enamoured with the beauty of this solution.  I am looking for 
# someone to talk me into/out of it!
# 
# Thanks for you time,
# Phillip
# 
# Some access control requirements
# Customer can view their orders
# suppliers can view/update all their products in catalog
# suppliers can view all of their products ordered by customers
# Employees can view/update all orders in system
# 
# 

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