Configuration Databases (1)

Introduction

• All aspects of the configuration to be parameterised in databases.
• ``Lightweight", in memory database (read the whole database into memory at initialisation)
• Several packages:
  • database: contains schema and data files
  • oks: basic database library: independent of ATLAS DAQ
  • confdb: higher level data access libraries (DALs) providing customised views of ATLAS DAQ system