{"id":718,"date":"2008-02-18T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/18\/ldap-vs-dbms-or-migrating-to-fedora-directory-server"},"modified":"2008-02-18T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:18:21","slug":"ldap-vs-dbms-or-migrating-to-fedora-directory-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/18\/ldap-vs-dbms-or-migrating-to-fedora-directory-server","title":{"rendered":"LDAP vs. DBMS (or migrating to fedora directory server)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/LCA\/Melbourne2008\">Fedora Miniconf<\/a>, I attended Del Elson&#8217;s talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/LCA\/Melbourne2008\/Session2\">Migrating to Fedora Directory Server<\/a>. Interesting scripts, and glue code was presented, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/LCA\/Melbourne2008?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=ldapimport.odp\">slides<\/a> (verbose, good) are online, but there&#8217;s no video :(<\/p>\n<p>Tiny amount of notes:<br \/>\nLDAP vs. DBMS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>directory has one schema, one &#8220;row&#8221; type (&#8220;object&#8221;). RDBMS has many tables<\/li>\n<li>directory =&gt; optimised for reads, slow for writes<\/li>\n<li>directory has an adaptable and mutable schema format &#8211; good for storing information about &#8220;people&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>think about the fact, that people usually have more than one phone number&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>access protocol &#8211; ldap vs. sql<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ldap\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">ldap<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dbms\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">dbms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fedora%20directory%20server\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">fedora directory server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lca08\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">lca08<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20LDAP%20vs.%20DBMS%20%28or%20migrating%20to%20fedora%20directory%20server%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F18%2Fldap-vs-dbms-or-migrating-to-fedora-directory-server&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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