What are the primary goals of the Sun OpenDS SE software?
• Performance. Lots of features are important, but performance is almost always near the top of the list. It needs to be extremely fast, outperforming all other servers wherever possible. • Upward Vertical Scalability. It needs to be capable of handling billions of entries in a multi instance directory on appropriately-sized hardware. It should be able to make effective use of multi-CPU, multi-core machines with hundreds of gigabytes of memory. • Downward Vertical Scalability. It needs to be capable of running adequately in low-memory environments so that all essential components can be functional on edge devices like cell phones and PDAs. • Horizontal Scalability. It needs be possible to use synchronization to achieve higher levels of read scalability by adding servers to the directory service. In addition, it needs to be possible to use data distribution in conjunction with synchronization to achieve horizontal read and write scalability to achieve deployments into the billions. • Su
