LinkAhead Documentation
Welcome to the documentation of LinkAhead, formerly CaosDB, the free & open source data management system.
Documentation by topic
You may want to visit the documentation pages for:
- Query Language:
Details about the LinkAhead query language.
- Tutorials for the Web Interface:
On finding and editing data using the web interface.
- Tutorials for the Python library:
First steps with scripting LinkAhead.
- Customization of the Web Interface:
On query short-cuts, custom forms, and more.
- Server-Side Scripting:
On installing and running server-side scripts.
Also, have a look at the interactive tour on the demo server.
Documentation by sub-project
For in-depth documentation for users, administrators and developers, you may want to visit the sub-project specific documentation pages for:
- Server:
The Java part of the LinkAhead server.
- MySQL backend:
The MySQl/MariaDB components of the LinkAhead server.
- WebUI:
The default web frontend for the LinkAhead server.
- PyLinkAhead:
The LinkAhead Python library.
- Advanced user tools:
The advanced Python tools for LinkAhead.
- LinkAhead Crawler:
The crawler is the main tool for automatic data integration in LinkAhead.
- LibLinkAhead:
The LinkAhead C++ library.
- LinkAhead.jl:
The LinkAhead Julia library.
- Octave-LinkAhead:
The LinkAhead Octave library.
- LinkAhead Protobuf API:
The specification of LinkAhead’s protobuf API.
- LinkAhead:
Your all inclusive LinkAhead software package.