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10 ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all
11 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">LDAP</a>
12 standards compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
13 see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
16 What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
17 designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
18 as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
21 ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
25 The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
28 <li>Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking
29 <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Application_Program_Interface">LDAP-like API</a>
31 <li>choice of local tdb or remote LDAP backends
32 <li>integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a>
33 <li>schema-less operation, for trivial setup
34 <li>modules for extensions (such as schema support)
35 <li>easy setup of indexes and attribute properties
36 <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Data_Interchange_Format">LDIF</a> for import/export
37 <li>ldbedit tool for database (via LDIF) editing (reminiscent of 'vipw')
40 <h2>Documentation</h2>
42 Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user
43 documentation. This is your opportunity to make a contribution! Start
44 with the public functions declared in <a
45 href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/ldb/include/ldb.h">ldb.h</a>
46 and the example code in the <a
47 href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/ldb/tools/">tools
48 directory</a>. Documentation in the same docbook format used by Samba
51 <h2>Discussion and bug reports</h2>
53 ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
54 system. For now, please use the <a
55 href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
56 mailing list or the <a href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/ldb">ldb</a>
57 mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
61 You can download the latest release either via rsync or thtough git.<br>
63 To fetch via git see the following guide:<br>
64 <a href="http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development">Using Git for Samba Development</a><br>
65 Once you have cloned the tree switch to the v4-0-test branch and cd into the source/lib/ldb directory.<br>
67 To fetch via rsync use these commands:
70 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/ldb .
71 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/tdb .
72 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/talloc .
73 rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/libreplace .
76 and build in ldb. It will find the other libraries in the directory
81 <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a><br>