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8<h1>ldb</h1>
9
10ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards
11compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
12see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
13project.<p>
14
15What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
16designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
17as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
18LDAP database.<p>
19
20ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
21
22<h2>Features</h2>
23
24The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
25
26<ul>
27<li>Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking
28<li>LDAP-like API
29<li>fast operation
30<li>choice of local tdb or remote LDAP backends
31<li>integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a>
32<li>schema-less operation, for trivial setup
33<li>modules for extensions (such as schema support)
34<li>easy setup of indexes and attribute properties
35<li>ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw')
36<li>ldif for import/export
37</ul>
38
39<h2>Documentation</h2>
40
41Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user
42documentation. This is your opportunity to make a contribution! Start
43with the public functions declared in <a
44href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h">ldb.h</a>
45and the example code in the <a
46href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools
47directory</a>. Documentation in the same docbook format used by Samba
48would be preferred.
49
50<h2>Discussion and bug reports</h2>
51
52ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
53system. For now, please use the <a
54href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
55mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba
56bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
57
58<h2>Download</h2>
59
60You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous
61svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands:
62
63<pre>
64 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb
65 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb
66 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc
67 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/replace libreplace
68</pre>
69
70To fetch via rsync use these commands:
71
72<pre>
73 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/ldb .
74 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/tdb .
75 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/talloc .
76 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/libreplace .
77</pre>
78
79and build in ldb. It will find the other libraries in the directory
80above automatically.
81
82<hr>
83<tiny>
84<a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br>
85ldb AT tridgell.net
86</tiny>
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