CaosDB Documentation

Welcome to the documentation of 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 caosdb 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 CaosDB.
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.

For in-depth documentation for users, administrators and developers, you may want to visit the subproject-specific documentation pages for:

Server: The Java part of the CaosDB server.
MySQL backend: The MySQl/MariaDB components of the CaosDB server.
WebUI: The default web frontend for the CaosDB server.
PyCaosDB: The CaosDB Python library.
Advanced user tools: The advanced Python tools for CaosDB.
CaosDB Crawler: The crawler is the main tool for automatic data integration in CaosDB.
LibCaosDB: The CaosDB C++ library.
CaosDB.jl: The CaosDB Julia library.
Octave-CaosDB: The CaosDB Octave library.
CaosDB Protobuf API: The specification of CaosDB’s protobuf API.
LinkAhead: Your all inclusive CaosDB distribution.