Re: Database Selection...

On 11 Feb 2002, Hunter Matthews wrote:

> I know this was meant half humorously (at least I hope it was), but I
> thought about this (I'm working on LDAP for my department here), and I
> doubt LDAP could handle the kind of data we are talking about here. 
>   (IE, think about a "client" object with 700 "package" values, or a
> client object with 700 children) 

I'm completely serious. RedHat uses Novell eDirectory for their RHN, I 
believe.

OpenLDAP may be the wrong choice, but even then I believe U Mich had an 
authentication server with over 20K objects that it searched on with every 
login. It is all about picking the right indecies.

> However, once 1.1 opens up (which will be the "database" devel version),
> you're more than free to try it. :)

I will certainly give it a whack.

LDAP is very different than SQL, though, so the database abstraction layer 
will need to be very abstract.

thornton