Grouper Developers Forum

[Kathryn Huxtable <>]

This is interesting to read and good to know.

But it doesn't address the issue of updates on extremely large  
individual objects.

-K

On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Peter Schober wrote:
> * Kathryn Huxtable 
> <>
>  [2008-04-03 19:09]:
> > Well, I don't know about directories other than Sun's and OpenLDAP,
> > but they both store an object as a text string in an Oracle
> > Sleepycat DB file. The indices are stored in separate DB files.
> >
> > If you have hundreds of thousands of values for an attribute,
> > e.g. hasMember, it can apparently be a bit slow to update it.
> >
> > Keeping the objects small has some performance advantages, I guess.
>
> recent OpenLDAP releases (2.4.x) should be fine with just about any
> size of DIB (if properly tuned):
> e.g. http://www.connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=203
> or http://www.connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=191
>
> not that desinging/optimizing the DIT structure is bad in any way and
> some are possbily stuck with products less well equipped ;)
> http://www.mail-archive.com//msg01464.html
>
> best regards,
> -peter
>
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