LDAP vs Auth0: What are the differences?
LDAP: A lightweight directory access protocol. It is a mature, flexible, and well supported standards-based mechanism for interacting with directory servers. It’s often used for authentication and storing information about users, groups, and applications, but an LDAP directory server is a fairly general-purpose data store and can be used in a wide variety of applications; Auth0: Token-based Single Sign On for your Apps and APIs with social, databases and enterprise identities. A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.
LDAP and Auth0 can be categorized as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Some of the features offered by LDAP are:
- Lightweight directory access protocol
- Used for authentication and storing information
- General-purpose data store
On the other hand, Auth0 provides the following key features:
- User and Password support with verification and forgot password email workflow
- Painless SAML Auth with Enterprises
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers