Red Hat's directory server

Red Hat's directory server

Posted Jun 2, 2005 19:39 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Red Hat's directory server by giraffedata
Parent article: Red Hat's directory server

I'm not entirely sure myself, but I think that it's essentially a non-SQL database with a standardized network protocol to access it. If you used Postgres or mysql or Oracle or something like that, you would need each program that's using it to understand the specific network protocol. LDAP is standardized on the network, so that the clients don't have to have drivers for different servers. There's a lot of further stuff beyond just LDAP, which essentially amounts to a standard database schema for particular purposes, which is also standardized somewhat, and is based on the LDAP database structure rather than SQL.

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