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The purpose of back-sql
The back-sql datastore is not meant to be used as the primary portion of
the Dit, but to present data from a relational data base system such as
Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL, etc... to LDAP enabled clients.
The overhead introduced by ODBC and the mapping of the relational
data model to the LDAP data model that must be performed by the
relational database itself* limits the performance of back-sql.
* The relational database must support stored procedures.
Not all aspects of the LDAP data model (such as referrals) can be
cleanly mapped onto the relational data model. Again, making backsql
non-optimal as the primary portion of the Dit.