Your Search Administration installation and all Routing installations must have access to the Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search databases. You can create and populate databases very easily through CIM. If you must create database tables manually, refer to this section.

Search components rely on two database schemas, one internal, which is used by management applications such as Search Administration and Oracle ATG Web Commerce Merchandising (referred to in the sections that follow as the management schema), and one external, which is used by search client applications such as the Routing module, Oracle ATG Web Commerce and Oracle ATG Web Knowledge Manager (referred to as the production schema). Most of the search tables are installed in the production schema so they are available at runtime to other applications.