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 featuresare supported when compared to OpenLDAP.The list is long :-)Though the feature list and FAQ says about many featuressupported by Fedora Directory Server (like multi-master replication, nested roles, cascading using hubs etc), theydon'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 searchfilters 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@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
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