Oracle Internet Directory an overkill for LDAP?

[a128]

There are many implementation of LDAP out there. Are there any good reasons Oracle's OID is better than others? Is storing LDAP data in a database an overkill? I think things like directory replication can be done for other LDAP implementation as well.

Any comments?

Thanks,

[KenEwald]

Why store ldap data in an Oracle Database (OID)?

Good question. Here's a few reasons why I recommend it.

Point in time recovery
Reusing existing (and probably highly available) database hardware
Open datasource

If this is your enterprise centralized authentication store, overkill is way better than underkill.