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This week's webinar is on OpenDS, the Open Source Java LDAP server that is at the core of the next generation for Sun's market leading DSEE Product. Ludovic will provide an overview of the project including the recent developments on the v2 release. The presentation on Thursday, April 23rdh, 11am US Pacific, at TheAquarium Channel. Full details (and recordings) at the … |
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There are two LDAP Directory Servers available that supports
MySQL Cluster - OpenLDAP (supported and maintained by Symas Corp.) and
OpenDS (Sun
Microsystems). Both of them have implemented a back-end called
back-ndb that talks direclty to the data nodes. This means that
they use the NDBAPI directly to access data in the cluster, thus
bypassing the MySQL Server.
Using MySQL Cluster as the back-end makes it possible to easily
scale out the LDAP layer without using replication between LDAP
servers. If you need to have more capacity in the LDAP layer, add
another LDAP server (online, no service interruption), if you
need more storage capacity, add data nodes (online, no service
interruption). This offers incredible scalability. And no single
point of failure.
But …