RE: Address book - LDAP or MySQL?

Jay Blanchard wrote:

I'm thinking of setting up an address-book on my server,
but I'm not sure whether to use LDAP or MySQL.

First of all LDAP is not a database, it is a connection protocol that
can connect to many things, most notably Active Directory seems to be
the most popular usage. Therefore you cannot compare it to MySQL,
because MySQL is a database product. Are you talking about Active
Directory being the database?

As I understand it, LDAP and MySQL offer two different ways
of setting up a networked address book.
So I take it they can be compared as far as that is concerned.

Actually, I normally run Linux, so Active Directory
would not be a priority for me.

I didn't say LDAP was a database.
However, the principal usage of LDAP, as far as I can see
(by googling for LDAP) is in fact
to set up a network address book of some kind.
It may be used for other purposes,
but they are not really relevant to my enquiry.


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