Tamino is a complete database management system for exchanging data and integrating applications on an XML basis. As a native XML database server, it is a powerful technology for making business data available as Internet objects. Tamino optimizes the usage of XML documents, facilitates communication via the Internet, stores XML and non-XML data, and accesses external systems and applications. In this document, the following features of Tamino will be introduced:

• The Tamino Manager

  The Tamino Manager is Tamino's browser-based tool for the administration of Tamino databases. With this tool you can create and delete databases, start and stop databases, define users, perform backup and restore functions, and conduct many other administrative activities.

• The Tamino Schema Editor

  The Tamino Schema Editor helps you work with schemas and define them to Tamino. In order to do so, you describe the schema using Tamino's schema definition language, which is based on the XML Schema standard. The Schema Editor allows you to define the schema as a graphical tree and automatically creates the schema definition in Tamino's schema language. Then you load the schema description into the Tamino XML Server. Once a schema has been defined in this way, you can load XML objects that are based on the schema into Tamino.

• The Tamino X-Plorer

  The Tamino X-Plorer is a very powerful tool for querying, browsing and manipulating the contents of Tamino databases. It consists of a Content Viewer to display collections, schemas, doctypes and XML or non-XML documents, and a navigation tree to allow easy access to databases and their contents. Also, it provides access to the XQuery Tool for easy data querying using the XQuery language.

This document will take you step by step through the process of creating a database, creating a Tamino schema based on a DTD, defining a schema, loading data into Tamino, and finally querying your data. It is based on a pre-defined example, so that you do not have to bother about creating XML data yourself. We recommend you to read this guide from beginning to end, so that you will have a complete introduction to the basic functions of Tamino after you have finished reading.

Other tools that are available from the Tamino program group are the Tamino Data Loader, the Tamino Interactive Interface, the XQuery tool and the X-Tension Builder.

Note:
For keyboard access to the Tamino Manager, see the Introduction to the Tamino Manager. The Tamino Interactive Interface uses the standard keyboard access of your browser. For details on keyboard access not mentioned in this documentation, consult the documentation of your individual operating system or software products.