Take the tour ×  I'm trying to display all of my corporate
database instances and their relationship to each other, so to
speak the database links. I found the geometry shape cylinder
using TikZ \usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}, but I'm new to the
whole TikZ stuff and it doesn't worked out that well so I
thought maybe you could help me getting something like the
following figure:  enter image description here  There will be a
ton of instances and arrows, but I hope that you guys could give
me a start so that I could do the rest on my own.  share|improve
this question Take a look at
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78357/… –  percusse Jul 13 at
9:54 Also, you can use cylinder shape from
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric} –  JLDiaz Jul 13 at 10:15
@JLDiaz: Edited my question, forgot the formatting. –  Chris.V
Jul 13 at 11:51 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 4 down vote
accepted  A very basic approach could look like this.       node
distance=3cm,       cylinder uses custom fill,       cylinder
body fill=yellow!50,