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Re: OpenLDAP compared to ...

Hello, Rick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
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> Also, I'm wondering about comparison in performance between LDAP to
> access information versus, say, Apache+PHP+MySQL.  I really have no
> idea, but suspect that LDAP might look pale when it comes to
> writing.  Any info or experiences on this front?

You are right.
Directory Services and LDAP-Servers are designed to provide very fast 
read access to information (some times faster than any RDBMS).
The price for the read-speed is a much lower write-performance.

hth
Ingo Schaefer