NAME

       tdb - trivial database

SYNOPSIS

       A database similar to gdbm which allows multiple simultaneous writers.

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  a  simple database API. It was inspired by the realisation that in Samba we have several ad-hoc
       bits of code that essentially implement small databases for sharing structures between parts of Samba. As
       I  was  about  to add another I realised that a generic database module was called for to replace all the
       ad-hoc bits.

       I based the interface on gdbm. I couldn't use gdbm as we need to be able to have multiple writers to  the
       databases at one time.

AUTHORS

       Software:  Andrew  Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com> and Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Man page: Ben Woodard
       <ben@valinux.com>

SEE ALSO

       gdbm(3),   tdb_open(3),   tdb_close(3),   tdb_delete(3),   tdb_error(3),   tdb_exists(3),   tdb_fetch(3),
       tdb_firstkey(3), tdb_store(3), tdb_traverse(3), tdb_lockall(3), tdb_lockkeys(3), tdb_chainlock(3)