{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Fedora Miniconf, I attended Del Elson&#8217;s talk on Migrating to Fedora Directory Server. Interesting scripts, and glue code was presented, the slides (verbose, good) are online, but there&#8217;s no video :( Tiny amount of notes: LDAP vs. DBMS directory has one schema, one &#8220;row&#8221; type (&#8220;object&#8221;). RDBMS has many tables directory =&gt; optimised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}