tdb and file-per-hash-chain

[tridge at samba.org]

James,

 > Hmmm. I had a quick poke around mysql.com and it's not clear whether
 > this is easily separable from MySQL. I guess you could always use MySQL
 > cluster as a backend to the TDB API, but that would require running
 > both your SAN cluster and the MySQL cluster. There's a lot of scope here
 > for misunderstandings and poor integration between discrete clustering
 > technologies.

The impression I got from Stewart Smith, who looks after this code at
MySQL, is that it is completely separable.

Stewart, can you let us know how we can extract just the ndb code so
it can be built as a standalone piece?

What we want is the bits needed to give us a key-value API.

Cheers, Tridge