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_Serve...
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 features
>> are supported when compared to OpenLDAP.
>
>
> The list is long :-)
>
>
>> Though the feature list and FAQ says about many features
>> supported by Fedora Directory Server (like multi-master replication,
>> nested roles, cascading using hubs etc), they
>
>
>
>> don'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 search
>> filters 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
>
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