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OpenLDAP Driver for MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition (CGE)

With the support of MySQL, Symas Corporation has developed an OpenLDAP driver that uses MySQL Cluster as the database for OpenLDAP. On this page, you can learn more about why MySQL Cluster makes a great data store for the most dynamic OpenLDAP directories, and learn how to get going.

MySQL Cluster is a network-based clustered database technology with excellent scalability, flexibility, performance, and ease-of-use. MySQL Cluster is often deployed as a subscriber (user) database within Communications Service Provider networks. Companies running Cluster are always looking for ways to further leverage their vital subscriber, network, and user data. As many subscriber/user oriented applications are LDAP aware, providing an LDAP interface that accesses the MySQL Cluster data would create new opportunities for companies running MySQL Cluster.

Now, with the new release of MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 7.0, MySQL Cluster databases can be accessed via an OpenLDAP directory server interface, allowing operators and other enterprises to embark on initiatives that more easily exploit user and network data that is distributed across legacy applications and networks. With the support of MySQL, Symas Corporation developed an OpenLDAP driver that uses MySQL Cluster as the database for OpenLDAP. This combination of OpenLDAP and MySQL Cluster dramatically reduces the cost and complexity for enterprises with very large directories (tens to hundreds of millions of entries).

To help position this new technology, Symas developed two white papers:

• Guide to Scaling OpenLDAP: MySQL Cluster as Data Store for OpenLDAP Directories and
• Deploying MySQL Cluster as a High-Availability Data Store for OpenLDAP.

These two guides should help you better understand how an OpenLDAP Directory using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition can fit into your enterprise.