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/*! @mainpage Reference Guide

WiredTiger is an high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL,
Open Source extensible platform for data management.

WiredTiger supports row-oriented storage (where all columns of a row are
stored together), column-oriented storage (where columns are stored in
groups, allowing for more efficient access and storage of column
subsets) and log-structured merge trees (LSM), for sustained throughput
under random insert workloads.

WiredTiger includes ACID transactions with standard isolation levels and
durability at both checkpoint and fine-grained granularity.

WiredTiger can be used as a simple key/value store, but also has a
complete schema layer, including indices and projections.

WiredTiger should be generally portable to any 64-bit system supporting
the ANSI C99, POSIX 1003.1 and POSIX 1003.1c (threads extension) standards.

For more information on the WiredTiger architecture and why it might be
right for your project, see:

- @subpage architecture

For more information about building and installing WiredTiger, see:

- @subpage build-posix
- @subpage build-windows
- @subpage leveldb

For more information about writing WiredTiger applications, see:

- @subpage programming
- @subpage programming_lang_java
(The Java API is not available on Windows.)
- @ref wt "WiredTiger API reference manual"

For more information about administrating WiredTiger databases, see:

- @subpage command_line
- @subpage admin

For release change logs and upgrading information, see:

- @subpage md_changelog
- @subpage upgrading

WiredTiger is Open Source; for more information, see:

- @subpage license

WiredTiger releases are tested on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X; for more
information, see:

- @subpage testing

To browse the WiredTiger source code repository or contact us, see:

- @subpage community

*/