Musing on the Future of Computing
Symas has set the pace in the database world with LMDB. The efficiency gains from LMDB’s Single Level Store approach make LMDB’s...
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Back to all postsNo case studies on ABAC?
Don’t get me wrong, everyone needs at least RBAC, but it has limitations and doesn’t work well with instance data in the authorization...
Read articleIntroducing a Security Access Control Engine Inside OpenLDAP
SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL ENGINE - HOW & WHY The OpenLDAP Accelerator is a Policy Decision Point that resides inside the slapd process....
Read articleUnderstanding LMDB Database File Sizes and Memory Utilization
INTRODUCTION The Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) is designed around the virtual memory facilities found in modern operating...
Read articleThe Sad State of C Strings
Character strings are an essential component of any programming language, but C Strings were a bit unusual in not defining an explicit...
Read articleAnticipating the Future With LMDB
As we’ve noted before, LMDB was designed to be a data storage solution for both today and especially for tomorrow, not to keep warming...
Read articlePerformance Tradeoffs in LMDB
Yes, LMDB is fast, blindingly fast. Can we make it faster still? Yes. As you should be aware, LMDB uses mmap() to map an entire database...
Read articleCarrier-Grade Stability and Performance
Early last year our client Acision ran a torture test on Symas OpenLDAP as part of acceptance testing for their telco offerings. These...
Read articleThis Is Not Your Father's Directory Server
OpenLDAP, a directory server which has the distinction of being the fastest LDAP directory server on the planet
Read articleGetting Down and Dirty with LMDB
Q&A WITH SYMAS CORPORATION’S HOWARD CHU ABOUT SYMAS’S LIGHTNING MEMORY-MAPPED DATABASE INTRODUCTION Howard Chu, the Chief Architect for...
Read articleIs LMDB a LevelDB Killer?
Was pointed at this blog post: Is LMDB a LevelDB Killer? via twitter about LevelDB, and decided to write a more complete response here.
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