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  10 ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards
  11 compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
  12 see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
  13 project.<p>
  14
  15 What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
  16 designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
  17 as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
  18 LDAP database.<p>
  19
  20 ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
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  22 <h2>Features</h2>
  23
  24 The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
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  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
  41 Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user
  42 documentation. This is your opportunity to make a contribution! Start
  43 with the public functions declared in <a
  44 href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h">ldb.h</a>
  45 and the example code in the <a
  46 href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools
  47 directory</a>. Documentation in the same docbook format used by Samba
  48 would be preferred.
  49
  50 <h2>Discussion and bug reports</h2>
  51
  52 ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
  53 system. For now, please use the <a
  54 href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
  55 mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba
  56 bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
  57
  58 <h2>Download</h2>
  59
  60 You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous
  61 svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands:
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  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
  70 To 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
  79 and build in ldb. It will find the other libraries in the directory
  80 above automatically.
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  82 <hr>
  83 <tiny>
  84 <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br>
  85 ldb AT tridgell.net
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