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Apache AsterixDB™ is a scalable, open source Big Data Management System (BDMS).
### Key Features ###
* [Flexible]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/aql/datamodel.html) data model
* [Distributed](http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/pub/vldb14-storage.pdf) storage and transaction
* [Fast]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/feeds/tutorial.html) data ingestion
* [Scalable](http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/pub/ICDE11_conf_full_690.pdf), data-parallel query execution runtime
* [Declarative]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/aql/manual.html) query language
AsterixDB supports various storage and indexing options:
- [Managed datasets]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/aql/primer.html), internal LSM-based storage
- [External datasets]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/aql/externaldata.html), e.g., data on HDFS
- [Secondary indexes]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/aql/primer.html), for both storage options.
### Community and Support
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on our [users](mailto:[email protected]) mailing list, which you can subscribe to by sending an empty email to [users-subscribe]([email protected]). Check out the [Community]({{ site.url }}community.html) page for more details.
If you would like to know more about how to contribute to AsterixDB or any of its related components, head on over to the [Contributing]({{ site.url }}dev-setup.html) page to learn more.
### Download
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[Installation Guide]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/ncservice.html)[AsterixDB 101]({{ site.DOCS_BASE_URL }}/{{ site.STABLE_VERSION }}/sqlpp/primer.html)