Re: advantages of ldap over dbms

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <to...@da...> wrote:
> ritu rani jaiswal, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>> I am new to ldap. Can you please let me know the advantages of ldap over
>> using a database.
> 
> Well, it really depends on what you want to do. LDAP can't do
> everything.  But if you are looking for information retrieval where
> there are a lot more reads than writes, try:
> <URL:http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/378.html>.
> 
> Darren

Our CSO gave this white paper ("Combining Directories and Relational
Databases in the Enterprise") to EMA a while ago:

http://www.messagingdirect.com/publications/IC-6055.html

Cheers,

Chris