Re: Justification for BDB vs RDBMS

[Sean Brown <sblinux@shaw.ca>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 4:20 pm
Subject: Justification for BDB vs RDBMS

> Dear all,
> 
> If you have a friend who is a highly skilled Oracle DBA with 20+ 
> years 
> experience, how do you convince them that bdb is a better backend 
> choice than 
> back-sql?
> 
> My argument was that bdb is extremely optimised for high read access.
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards,

Ask what OpenLDAP does that bdb can't handle, then ask what does Oracle do that could hinder your LDAP directory. Then ask about licencing costs.