diff --git a/registry/README.md b/registry/README.md
index d936af5..653ca80 100644
--- a/registry/README.md
+++ b/registry/README.md
@@ -14,4 +14,38 @@ To run the registry service, use:
 feathr-registry --http-addr 0.0.0.0:8000
 ```
 
-Check out for more command line options with `feathr-registry --help`, detailed documents are coming soon.
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+You can also use `Dockerfile` to build a Docker image with UI fetched from [the main Feathr repo](https://github.com/linkedin/feathr).
+
+## Common Settings and Environment Variables
+
+### Command line options
+
+* `--http-addr`: Listening address, default to `0.0.0.0:8000`.
+* `--api-base`: API base URL, default to `/api`, and the V1 and V2 API endpoint start with `/api/v1` and `/api/v2`.
+* `--ext-http-addr`: Use if you have reverse proxy in front of the node and it is also a member of a cluster. The value of this option will be published to other nodes in the cluster so they can communicate to each other. Default value is same as `--http-addr`.
+* `--load-db`: Add this option to load data from the database on start.
+* `--write-db`: Add this option to write all updates to database, use with `--load-db` to enable fully sync with the database.
+* `--node-id`: Node id in the cluster, default to `1`, each node must use unique value in the same cluster, otherwise it will not be able to join the cluster.
+* `--seeds`: Comma separated list of seed nodes, new node will contact seeds to get the full picture of the whole cluster.
+* `--no-init`: By default a node will try to start a new cluster if it cannot join existing one, use this option to disable this behavior.
+
+### Environment variables
+
+* `CONNECTION_STR`: Database connection string, can be either ADO connection string format (for SQLServer or AzureSQL) or URL (for MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite).
+* `ENTITY_TABLE`: The name of the table that stores entities, default to `entities`.
+* `EDGE_TABLE`: The name of the table that stores relationship between entities, default to `edges`.
+* `RBAC_TABLE`: The name of the table that stores user permissions, default to `userroles`.
+* `ENABLE_RBAC`: Set this variable to any non-empty string to enable access control, otherwise the access control is disabled.
+
+The database schema can be created with the SQL script under `scripts` directory.
+
+Check out for more command line options with `feathr-registry --help`, detailed documents are coming soon.
+### Notes to clustering
+
+To enable registry clustering, you should:
+
+1. Start the initial node with `--node-id` equals `1`.
+2. Start other nodes with unique node ids, and with `--seeds` option pointing to running nodes, this option can either be an `IP:port` combination, e.g. `1.2.3.4:8000`, or you can use DNS name instead of the IP address, the node will try to resolve all IP addresses of this DNS name to get as many seeds as possible.
+3. Only 1 node should use `--load-db` and `--write-db` option, otherwise there could be race conditions and lead to corrupted data. Another use case is to use multiple nodes to write multiple different databases, if you need HA or geo-replication.
+4. In case the database connected node is down, you can simply restart it and all missing operations will be replicated to this node, and database should be updated.
+5. If you have reversed proxy such as nginx in front of the node, you may need to specify `--ext-http-addr`, then the node will report the value of this option as the external endpoint when joining the cluster, so other nodes can connect to it.
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diff --git a/registry/scripts/mssql.sql b/registry/scripts/mssql.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbf3dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/registry/scripts/mssql.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+create table entities
+(
+    entity_id      varchar(50)   not null
+        primary key,
+    entity_content nvarchar(max) not null
+)
+go
+
+create table edges
+(
+    from_id   varchar(50) not null,
+    to_id     varchar(50) not null,
+    edge_type varchar(50) not null,
+    constraint edges_pk
+        primary key (from_id, to_id, edge_type)
+)
+go
+
+create table userroles
+(
+    record_id     int identity,
+    project_name  varchar(100) not null,
+    user_name     varchar(100) not null,
+    role_name     varchar(100) not null,
+    create_by     varchar(100) not null,
+    create_reason nvarchar(max) not null,
+    create_time   datetime    not null,
+    delete_by     varchar(100),
+    delete_reason nvarchar(max),
+    delete_time   datetime
+)
+
+create index create_by
+    on userroles (create_by);
+
+create index delete_by
+    on userroles (delete_by);
+
+create index project_name
+    on userroles (project_name);
+
+create index role_name
+    on userroles (role_name);
+
+create index user_name
+    on userroles (user_name);
+go
diff --git a/registry/scripts/mysql.sql b/registry/scripts/mysql.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2139c85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/registry/scripts/mysql.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+create table entities
+(
+    entity_id      varchar(50) not null
+        primary key,
+    entity_content mediumtext  not null
+);
+
+create table edges
+(
+    from_id   varchar(50) not null,
+    to_id     varchar(50) not null,
+    edge_type varchar(20) not null
+);
+
+create index entity_dep_conn_type_index
+    on edges (edge_type);
+
+create index entity_dep_from_id_index
+    on edges (from_id);
+
+create index entity_dep_to_id_index
+    on edges (to_id);
+
+
+create table userroles
+(
+    record_id     int auto_increment
+        primary key,
+    project_name  varchar(255) not null,
+    user_name     varchar(255) not null,
+    role_name     varchar(50)  not null,
+    create_by     varchar(255) not null,
+    create_reason text         not null,
+    create_time   datetime     not null,
+    delete_by     varchar(255) null,
+    delete_reason text         null,
+    delete_time   datetime     null
+);
+
+create index create_by
+    on userroles (create_by);
+
+create index delete_by
+    on userroles (delete_by);
+
+create index project_name
+    on userroles (project_name);
+
+create index role_name
+    on userroles (role_name);
+
+create index user_name
+    on userroles (user_name);
+
diff --git a/registry/scripts/sqlite.sql b/registry/scripts/sqlite.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bd99fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/registry/scripts/sqlite.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+CREATE TABLE entities(
+    entity_id varchar(50),
+    entity_content text,
+    PRIMARY KEY (entity_id)
+);
+CREATE TABLE edges(
+    from_id varchar(50),
+    to_id varchar(50),
+    edge_type varchar(50),
+    PRIMARY KEY (from_id, to_id, edge_type)
+);