At last year’s LDAP-Con event, Ludo from OpenDS and Howard from OpenLDAP presented on the work that they’d done on using MySQL Cluster as the scalable, real-time data store for LDAP directories (going directly to the NDB API rather than using SQL).…
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Accessing the same data through LDAP and SQL
OpenLDAP includes a driver that allows it to store and access data held in MySQL Cluster. It uses the NDB-API to access the database and so the performance is extremely good. One of the great things about the solution is that it lets you simultaneously access the same data through both LDAP and SQL (or the NDB-API or any of the MySQL connectors).…