Re: OpenLDAP compared to ...

[Kasian Franks <juvenate@yahoo.com>]

...and that different matter is what I'm talking
about. A chart or two displaying quantified througput
on record access comps between LDAP and and
Oracle/mySQL/postgress etc...

After all sometimes you have to do "silly" things in
order to change the perception of the masses or
satisfy a customer, who in fact will pay for a silly
request which makes it not so $illy after all...


--- Christoph Neumann <enigma@apu.edu> wrote:
> Yeah.  And while they are at it, does someone have a
> comparison between 
> LDAP and a filesystem...after all, they both store
> data.  Hey, how about 
> LDAP and a file cabinet? or LDAP and a PDA?
> 
> LDAP is completely different from an RDBMS.  It has
> a different purpose.  
> It has different ways of organizing information. 
> It's silly to do
> performance comparisons between the two.  Now if you
> want to understand
> the difference between LDAP and an RDBMS, that's a
> different matter....
> 
> - Christoph
> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Kasian Franks wrote:
> 
> > Does someone have a list of info pointers with
> > performance comparisons between LDAP and RDBMS's?
> > 
> > 
> > --- Ingo Schaefer <ingo@ingo-schaefer.de> wrote:
> > > Hello, Rick wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > [..]
> > > > 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
> > 
> > 
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