Active Directory & Blizzards database management platform

[nikolas]

Is Active Directory the appropriate database management platform for these kind of account numbers? We us it at our University and it's fine with only 25K accounts to manage... I'm not sure if it can handle WoW's numbers tbh..

[Draylor]

Heh

No

[Bone_Idle]

Originally Posted by nikolas

Is Active Directory the appropriate database management platform for these kind of account numbers? We us it at our University and it's fine with only 25K accounts to manage... I'm not sure if it can handle WoW's numbers tbh..

Eh?

[yaruar]

no it wouldn't be the right system...

most likely some custom oracle or sql bases database with a bolted on authentication system

[Gahn]

They should use Novell eNDS tbh for that kinda numbers, period.

[WiZe^]

i make SQL servers for fun

[legis]

AD can hold millions of objects. Despite this I can't see why they should use it. I hope they have their own customized db.

[Nugusta]

Originally Posted by yaruar

no it wouldn't be the right system...

most likely some custom oracle or sql bases database with a bolted on authentication system

Afaik they we're advertising a job vacancy for someone experienced with oracle ^^

[yaruar]

Originally Posted by WiZe^

i make SQL servers for fun

I think that qualifies you to be committed to a mental institution

[yaruar]

Originally Posted by Nugusta

Afaik they we're advertising a job vacancy for someone experienced with oracle ^^

I'd lay money on the fact they run oracle on redhat advanced server clusters with custom database tools for the account logons and querying.

I can't say for definate, but it's the way i would have set it up (and most probably running on IBM or HP kit)