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

["Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

> 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!


	Repeat after me.  A directory server is not a database
server.  A directory server is not a database server.  A directory
server is not a database server.  A directory server is not a database
server.  A directory server is not a database server.  A directory
server is not a database server.


	It sounds like you want to treate LDAP as a large RDBMS,
somthing it is not.

 
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