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