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# Welcome to Guinsoo!

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Welcome to Guinsoo, the Java SQL database. The main feature of Guinsoo are:

* Very fast, open source
* Embedded and server modes; Also support in-memory mode
* Small footprint

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## Features

* Very fast, open source, and JDBC API
* Embedded and server modes; Disk-based or in-memory databases
* Transaction support, MVCC (multi-version concurrency)
* Encrypted databases
* Fulltext search
* Pure Java with a small footprint

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