diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tdb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tdb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..869536820340
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tdb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, libxslt, libxml2, docbook_xsl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "tdb-1.2.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://samba.org/ftp/tdb/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1yndfc2hn28v78vgvrds7cjggmmhf9q5dcfklgdfvpsx9j9knhpg";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ libxslt libxml2 docbook_xsl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "TDB, the trivial database";
+    longDescription =
+      '' TDB is a Trivial Database. In concept, it is very much like GDBM,
+         and BSD's DB except that it allows multiple simultaneous writers and
+         uses locking internally to keep writers from trampling on each
+         other.  TDB is also extremely small.
+      '';
+
+    homepage = http://tdb.samba.org/;
+    license = "LGPLv3+";
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c8daf094ee5c..da89786d1f84 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4907,6 +4907,10 @@ let
     inherit stdenv fetchurl cmake qt4 telepathy_qt;
   };
 
+  tdb = import ../development/libraries/tdb {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv libxslt libxml2 docbook_xsl;
+  };
+
   tecla = import ../development/libraries/tecla {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };