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/**
\mainpage ldb
\section Overview
ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database. It is not at all LDAP standards
compliant, so if you want a standards compliant database then please
see the excellent <a href="http://www.openldap.org/">OpenLDAP</a>
project.<p>
What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API
designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen
as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real
LDAP database.<p>
ldb is the database engine used in Samba4.
\section Features
The main features that separate ldb from other solutions are:
- Safe multi-reader, multi-writer, using byte range locking
- LDAP-like API
- fast operation
- choice of local tdb, local sqlite3 or remote LDAP backends
- integration with <a href="http://talloc.samba.org">talloc</a>
- schema-less operation, for trivial setup
- modules for extensions (such as schema support)
- easy setup of indexes and attribute properties
- ldbedit tool for database editing (reminiscent of 'vipw')
- ldif for import/export
\section Documentation
ldb has limited programmer and administrator documentation:
- a list of <a href="globals_func.html">functions</a>
- a list of <a href="examples.html">examples</a>
- a list of <a href="annotated.html">data structures</a>
- a list of <a href="globals_defs.html">constants</a>
If you need more information than is presented in this document, you
may wish to look at the source code, especially the source code in the
<a href="http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb/tools/">tools directory</a>.
ldb makes use of the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is
documented in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt">RFC
2849</a>.
\section Support
ldb does not currently have its own mailing list or bug tracking
system. For now, please use the <a
href="https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-technical">samba-technical</a>
mailing list, and the <a href="http://bugzilla.samba.org/">Samba
bugzilla</a> bug tracking system.
\section Download
You can download the latest release either via rsync or anonymous
svn. To fetch via svn use the following commands:
\verbatim
svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/ldb ldb
svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/tdb tdb
svn co svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc talloc
\endverbatim
To fetch via rsync use these commands:
\verbatim
rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/ldb .
rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/tdb .
rsync -Pavz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/lib/talloc .
\endverbatim
\section Credits
ldb is another product of the prolific <a href="http://samba.org/~tridge/">Andrew Tridgell</a>.
*/
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