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

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Andrew Davison wrote:

# Which begs the question, "Why is LDAP so poor at updates?". Is it
# because of a bad design? It can't be the DB's used, because some
# powerful stuff is used in various implementations. Is it true then, or
# is this just some mantra that is repeated over and over with no solid
# performance figures to back up the claim?

	Send a bunch of updates to your LDAP server and see if it's fast,
if you don't believe it.  It's basic data warehousing.  If you want
lookups to be fast, you do heavy indexing, which makes inserts/updates
slow.  If you want inserts/updates to be fast, you do light or no
indexing, which makes lookups very slow.

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