Registry&Directory InfrastructureOverall Problem Statement, cont’d

• RDBMS properties:

  • Strongly typed data
  • Can represent complex relationships
  • Transaction support
  • Support on-the-fly data view generation, aka “Join”
    • “find all the people whose managers are located in New York” and place result set in a new table for later use
  • Has notion of referential integrity
  • No open “on the wire” protocol standard

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