Directory DB Approaches
Directory DB Approaches
- Subject: Directory DB Approaches
- From: gotWoody <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:57:46 -0400
Hi folks,
I'm interested in your opinion concerning a good approach to the
following problem:
A database of related customer records and their purchases.
It needs to be accessed by 2..10 clients simultaneously.
It should leverage Address Book, allowing for shared contacts that are
common to the organization, while the individual user of the account
can also have their personal, non-shared contacts in their addressbook.
Ideally, i could also utilize CoreData.
Some approaches that I'm in the process of reading about:
- Using an Open Directory server to store the shared contacts,
accessible via Addressbook through the LDAP connector. But what about
the related tables that wouldn't be in the LDAP directory (purchases,
transactions etc), how would they synchronize?
- Using Sync Services. The documentation seems to imply that it's for
syncing one person's data with multiple devices and does so via .Mac
for remote machines, but someone wrote a Google Calendar <-> iCal sync
that doesn't seem to require .Mac (or maybe it does). If Sync
Services requires everyone to hve the same .Mac account, that woudn't
work.
- Design my own implementation of a customer database, and then use
the cocoa Address Book functions to synchronize the local addressbook
with my customer database. Still, how then might the multiple local
storages be synchronized among client workstations?
Thanks for any insights, or redirects to FAQs or whatever might have
some additional leads to follow.
Woody
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