7 ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards
8 compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
9 see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
12 What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
13 designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
14 as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
17 ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
21 The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
22 - Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking
25 - choice of local tdb, local sqlite3 or remote LDAP backends
26 - integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a>
27 - schema-less operation, for trivial setup
28 - modules for extensions (such as schema support)
29 - easy setup of indexes and attribute properties
30 - ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw')
31 - ldif for import/export
33 \section Documentation
35 ldb has limited programmer and administrator documentation:
36 - a list of <a href="globals_func.html">functions</a>
37 - a list of <a href="examples.html">examples</a>
38 - a list of <a href="annotated.html">data structures</a>
39 - a list of <a href="globals_defs.html">constants</a>
41 If you need more information than is presented in this document, you
42 may wish to look at the source code, especially the source code in the
43 <a href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools directory</a>.
45 ldb makes use of the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is
46 documented in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt">RFC
51 ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
52 system. For now, please use the <a
53 href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
54 mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba
55 bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
59 You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous
60 svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands:
63 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb
64 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb
65 svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc
68 To fetch via rsync use these commands:
71 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb .
72 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/tdb .
73 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/talloc .
78 ldb is another product of the prolific <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a>.