README

Thank you for your interest in VoltDB!

This program is free software distributed under the terms of the 
GNU Affero General Public License Version 3. See the accompanying 
LICENSE file for details on your rights and responsibilities with 
regards to the use and redistribution of VoltDB software.

What is VoltDB?
====================
VoltDB is a horizontally-scalable, in-memory SQL RDBMS designed for 
applications that have extremely high read and write throughput 
requirements.

Getting Started
===============
If you have installed VoltDB from the distribution kit, you now have 
a directory containing this README file and several subdirectories, 
including:

bin      - Scripts for compiling the application catalog, starting 
           VoltDB, bulk loading data, as well as interacting with
           and managing the running database
doc      - Documentation, tutorials, and java-doc
examples - sample programs demonstrating the use of VoltDB
lib      - Third party libraries
tools    - XML schemas, monitoring plugins, and other tools
voltdb   - the VoltDB software itself

The easiest way to get started using VoltDB is to try building and 
running one or more of the sample programs. Read examples/README for 
instructions. There is also a complete tutorial available online:

    http://docs.voltdb.com/tutorial/
 
Additional documentation on using VoltDB to build high performance
applications is available from the VoltDB community site:

    http://docs.voltdb.com/


Feedback
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If you have any questions or comments about VoltDB, we encourage you
to post and discuss your feedback in the forums available online at:

    http://forum.voltdb.com/