#### OpenSSO Data Store Types

In the OpenSSO Data Store Selection screen, you can create the following data store types:

##### Active Directory

This data store type uses the LDAP version 3 specification to write identity data to an instance of Microsoft Active Directory.

For attribute definitions, see Active Directory Attributes.

##### Generic LDAPv3

This data store type allows identity data to written to any LDAPv3–compliant database. If the LDAPv3 database you are using does not support Persistent Search, then you can not use the caching feature.

For attribute definitions, see Generic LDAPv3 Attributes.

##### Sun Directory Server OpenSSO Schema

This data store type resides in a Sun Java System Directory Server instance and holds the OpenSSO information tree.

For attribute definitions, see Sun Directory Server with OpenSSO Schema Attributes.