Dinil Divakaran wrote: > > Thanks for the help guys ! > > So, does this mean that Fedora DS includes every feature in > Netscape DS and Redhat DS ? Yes. Red Hat bought Netscape DS and renamed it Red Hat DS. They also released the source code and created the open source Fedora DS project. So, for now, Netscape DS == Red Hat DS == Fedora DS. See http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/FAQ#How_is_Fedora_Directory_Server_different_from_iPlanet_and_Sun_Directory_Server.3F > > I couldn't still find whether Fedora DS supports these features > too: > > * automatic, on-line directory replication I'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you explain this more? > > * Java and C/C++ SDK Yes. The Mozilla LDAP C and Java SDKs are included with the binary distribution, as well as PerLDAP. > > * horizontal and vertical scalability Scalability: thousands of operations per second, tens of thousands of concurrent users, tens of millions of entries, hundreds of gigabytes of data > > I was actually comparing the features with SUN's DS. It has > most of the features that I require; but if everything that SUN > supports is found in Fedora DS, then why waste money :) ! The features of Fedora DS are very, very similar to Sun DS, because up until late 2001 they had the same code base. > > - Dinil > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mike Jackson wrote: > >> Dinil Divakaran wrote: >> >>> >>> Greetings !! >> >> >> Greetings, >> >>> Before going for Fedora Directory Server, I thought of going through >>> the feature list to see what all additional features >>> are supported when compared to OpenLDAP. >> >> >> The list is long :-) >> >> >>> Though the feature list and FAQ says about many features >>> supported by Fedora Directory Server (like multi-master replication, >>> nested roles, cascading using hubs etc), they >> >> >> >>> don't provide information about some common features that >>> are supported by OpenLDAP. Some of such features include, >>> support for SNMP, >> >> >> Supported. >> >> >>> password hashing, >> >> >> Supported hashes are Crypt, SHA, and Salted SHA. >> >> >>> support of LDAP search >>> filters such as presence, equality, inequality, sub-string, >>> approximate and boolean operators, >> >> >> This is part of the LDAPv3 standard. >> >> >> >>> support for consumer- >>> initiated replication, >> >> >> Fedora DS does not support SyncRepl, if that's what you are asking. >> >> >>> support for supplier-initiated >>> replication, >> >> >> Supported in single-master and multi-master replication models. >> >> >>> support for Digital certificates, >> >> >> Supported for 8 years already. >> >> >>> support for >>> XMLDAP gateway and whether the Directory server support >>> XML for integration with external applications. XML and >>> XMLDAP are not supported by OpenLDAP too, I believe. >> >> >> DSML is the standardized markup language for LDAP, and this is >> supported in Fedora DS via the included DSML gateway process (java >> process). >> >> >> Fedora DS is a direct and immediate descendant of the Netscape DS, >> which was the first commercial LDAPv2 implementation in the world. >> Now it's at LDAPv3. Netscape invented most of these features, and >> OpenLDAP project started in 1999 to basically try to implement the >> core server and some of these Netscape features. >> >> If you ask me, the only real benefit to using OpenLDAP today is the >> abundance of strange backends, e.g. if you want to make a really >> special purpose LDAP server. You can make a directory out of just >> about any arbitrary data source, etc. Writing backends for Fedora DS >> is also possible, but there aren't too many available at the moment. >> >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> LDAP Directory Consulting - http://www.netauth.com >> > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3312 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050620/ce06c72f/attachment.bin
