Deploying Large-Scale LDAP Directories
Many organizations, in particular those that deal with external
customer data such as telcos, insurance, medical and retail
organizations can often have large amounts of entries in their
directories that can number in the millions.
If you are using one of the
Netscape-variant LDAP servers which includes Sun, IPlanet, Netscape and
Red
Hat directory servers - scaling to large numbers is limited by their
design. It's also harder to manage fail-over systems when you have
large number of users because they force you to replicate your data -
which is time consuming and can be error-prone.
Oracle Internet Directory doesn't suffer from the limitations of these
early directory server designs and can often provide better
scalability/high-availability more easily because it leverages the
capabilities of the Oracle RDBMs.
We have just written a paper
where you can see for yourself how well this
design works and decide for youserlf if maybe it's time to move to industrial-strength directory services from Oracle.
