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What is a directory?
A directory is a hierarchical collection of objects and the
attributes of the objects much like the subdirectories of a
filesystem and the files contained in the subdirectories.
A directory is not a database. Objects can have varying
attributes and numbers of the same attributes, unlike the
columnar structure of an SQL database's "table".
Directory servers are typically optimized for a very high
ratio of searches to updates.