directory-server

Choosing between a directory server (a.k.a LDAP database) and an RDBMS

烂漫一生 提交于 2020-01-23 06:55:48
问题 In my project, where I'm the lead developer, we earlier had a network configuration that was stored a single XML file. The configuration contains info about a network layout - its constituent hosts, various details about each host like OS, platform, users configured in each them, several attributes for each user and so on. In the forthcoming version of the product, we want to move the data into a database of some sort since the configuration will be expanded to include more elements and

Choosing between a directory server (a.k.a LDAP database) and an RDBMS

泄露秘密 提交于 2019-12-05 10:27:44
In my project, where I'm the lead developer, we earlier had a network configuration that was stored a single XML file. The configuration contains info about a network layout - its constituent hosts, various details about each host like OS, platform, users configured in each them, several attributes for each user and so on. In the forthcoming version of the product, we want to move the data into a database of some sort since the configuration will be expanded to include more elements and details and maintaining them in XML files will start becoming cumbersome. The first choice was an RDBMS.