Sedna Directory Structure

The Sedna directory hierarchy is fundamental to obtaining an overall understanding of the system. Below SEDNA_INSTALL refers to the directory where Sedna is installed. The directory structures are identical on all supported platforms.

SEDNA_INSTALL/bin       command line utilities for managing
                        Sedna and databases, running queries, etc.
SEDNA_INSTALL/cfg       database configuration files named
                        <db_name>_cfg.xml, where <db_name> is
                        the name of the corresponding database
SEDNA_INSTALL/data      database data stored in subdirectories
                        named <db_name>_files, where <db_name>
                        is the name of the corresponding database
SEDNA_INSTALL/lib       database-independent libraries of external
                        functions
SEDNA_INSTALL/data/<db_name>_files/lib
                        database-specific libraries of external
                        functions
SEDNA_INSTALL/doc       Sedna documentation
SEDNA_INSTALL/driver    API drivers for various programming
                        languages
SEDNA_INSTALL/include   include files
SEDNA_INSTALL/etc       Sedna configure sample file
                        sednaconf.xml.sample
SEDNA_INSTALL/examples  example databases and applications for
                        the Sedna APIs
SEDNA_INSTALL/share     Sedna database metadata files (currently
                        only database users and privileges
                        metadata)

For the installation instructions see the INSTALL file shipped with the Sedna distribution.

2.1 Sedna Directory Structure