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MySQL and Symas have worked together for much of 2008 to produce a back-ndb, a back-end module for OpenLDAP that uses MySQL Cluster’s networked clustered database technology for OpenLDAP. Initially, we were concerned about how this would turn out but the advantages of the clustering technology made it worth a try. It turned out much better than expected!

MySQL (Sun) has contributed the source of this back-end to the OpenLDAP project and it is available in source from the project now. We expect it to be included in the next OpenLDAP 2.4 Release (imminent). MySQL will be offering binary distributions for selected platforms by the end of September.

Suretec can now report that Symas, using MySQL’s NDB API, have developed an OpenLDAP backend which talks directly to the MySQL cluster storage engine, completely bypassing the SQL layer, in association with MySQL of course.

Others think this is good news too.

It is already Open Source and will be committed to the main OpenLDAP codebase when ready. (when is the PostgreSQL one out! )

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