On 7/8/05, Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org> wrote: > Quoting Sam Tran <stlist at gmail.com>: > > I was wondering how FDS compares with OpenLDAP in terms of performance. > > Well, its faster, in our case (and I say that tongue-in-cheek). Our current > primary directory server is running on a dual 168Mhz Ultra 2 Sun box. And our > secondary is a Sparcstation 10, at a whopping 70Mhz :) > > > If you don't mind me asking how big is your current LDAP > > infrastructure in terms of entries and number of connections/sec.? How > > well your test FDS performs compare to your current LDAP server? > > Its a small installation, maybe 10,000 entries, but that services our own > organization, as well as 22 school districts, each in separate trees. But per > above, there's really no way I can provide an accurate comparison between the > current and anything else, other than to say its faster. > > > I would appreciate your input. > > Factors that go into my decision (and I use Fedora loosely, to describe my > experience and observations with Netscape/Sun/iPlanet products generally): > > Cost (its a wash between OpenLDAP vs. Fedora DS) > Manageability (hands down Fedora, simply because I'm familar with the Netscape > management infrastructure) > Scalability (my guess is Fedora, based on the size of installations > that are out > there) > Availability (Fedora - no proven multimaster support in OpenLDAP) > Ease of migration (Fedora - an upgrade to OpenLDAP meant refactoring > all ACL's, > massaging attributes and objectclasses, etc.) > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin M. Myer > Senior Systems Administrator > Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 http://www.iu13.org > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > Thanks Rich and Kevin for your input. As far as I am concerned the management console and the multimaster replication would be the two main advantages of FDS. However according to that paper multi-master replication could lead to inconsistencies: http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-zeilenga-ldup-harmful-02.txt What do you think? Thanks. Sam
