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SLAPD-NDB(5)               File Formats Manual              SLAPD-NDB(5)

NAME         top

       slapd-ndb - MySQL NDB backend to slapd

SYNOPSIS         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION         top

       The ndb backend to slapd(8) uses the MySQL Cluster package to
       store data, through its NDB API.  It provides fault tolerance
       with extreme scalability, along with a degree of SQL
       compatibility.

       This backend is designed to store LDAP information using tables
       that are also visible from SQL. It uses a higher level SQL API
       for creating these tables, while using the low level NDB API for
       storing and retrieving the data within these tables. The NDB
       Cluster engine allows data to be partitioned across multiple data
       nodes, and this backend allows multiple slapd instances to
       operate against a given database concurrently.

       The general approach is to use distinct tables for each LDAP
       object class.  Entries comprised of multiple object classes will
       have their data spread across multiple tables. The data tables
       use a 64 bit entryID as their primary key. The DIT hierarchy is
       maintained in a separate table, which maps DNs to entryIDs.

       This backend is experimental. While intended to be a general-
       purpose backend, it is currently missing a number of common LDAP
       features.  See the TODO file in the source directory for details.

CONFIGURATION         top

       These slapd.conf options apply to the ndb backend database.  That
       is, they must follow a "database ndb" line and come before any
       subsequent "backend" or "database" lines.  Other database options
       are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page.

DATA SOURCE CONFIGURATION         top

       dbhost <hostname>
              The name or IP address of the host running the MySQL
              server. The default is "localhost". On Unix systems, the
              connection to a local server is made using a Unix Domain
              socket, whose path is specified using the dbsocket
              directive.

       dbuser <username>
              The MySQL login ID to use when connecting to the MySQL
              server. The chosen user must have sufficient privileges to
              manipulate the SQL tables in the target database.

       dbpasswd <password>
              The password for the dbuser.

       dbname <database name>
              The name of the MySQL database to use.

       dbport <port>
              The port number to use for the TCP connection to the MySQL
              server.

       dbsocket <path>
              The socket to be used for connecting to a local MySQL
              server.

       dbflag <integer>
              Client flags for the MySQL session. See the MySQL
              documentation for details.

       dbconnect <connectstring>
              The name or IP address of the host running the cluster
              manager. The default is "localhost".

       dbconnections <integer>
              The number of cluster connections to establish. Using up
              to 4 may improve performance under heavier load. The
              default is 1.

SCHEMA CONFIGURATION         top

       attrlen <attribute> <length>
              Specify the column length to use for a particular
              attribute. LDAP attributes are stored in individual
              columns of the SQL tables. The maximum column lengths for
              each column must be specified when creating these tables.
              If a length constraint was specified in the attribute's
              LDAP schema definition, that value will be used by
              default. If the schema didn't specify a constraint, the
              default is 128 bytes.  Currently the maximum is 1024.

       index <attr[,attr...]>
              Specify a list of attributes for which indexing should be
              maintained.  Currently there is no support for substring
              indexing; a single index structure provides presence,
              equality, and inequality indexing for the specified
              attributes.

       attrset <set> <attrs>
              Specify a list of attributes to be treated as an attribute
              set. This directive creates a table named set which will
              contain all of the listed attributes.  Ordinarily an
              attribute resides in a table named by an object class that
              uses the attribute. However, attributes are only allowed
              to appear in a single table.  For attributes that are
              derived from an inherited object class definition, the
              attribute will only be stored in the superior class's
              table.  Attribute sets should be defined for any
              attributes that are used in multiple unrelated object
              classes, i.e., classes that are not connected by a simple
              inheritance chain.

ACCESS CONTROL         top

       The ndb backend honors most access control semantics as indicated
       in slapd.access(5).

FILES         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

SEE ALSO         top

       slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8), slapadd(8), slapcat(8),
       slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), MySQL Cluster documentation.

AUTHOR         top

       Howard Chu, with assistance from Johan Andersson et al @ MySQL.

COLOPHON         top

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