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Introduction to Signum Engine

Signum Engine is the assembly with runtime that allows you to deal with the database in terms of your entities, for this reason, this assembly only needs to be known

It contains two main façades:

• Database: for normal usage of your entities (save, retrieve, query and delete).
• Administrator: for administrative tasks like creating the database or generating a synchronization script.
  

Also, all the mapping between entities and database tables is centralized in the Schema data structure. Therefore, before using the engine, you need to generate this structure and set it in the current Connection.

Finally, a lot of the engine infrastructure, like Connection, Transaction and ObjectCache, rest on the concept of scopes, which encourages a clean an flexible way of coding.

The following heterodox diagram shows the basic components of Signum Engine and the relationship between them. By clicking on them you will navigate to this particular section of the documentation.



If you prefer to follow a practical approach go to the basic tutorial or a more in depth one Tutorial: Writing the Server Code