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 title: About Apache AsterixDB
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-Apache AsterixDB&trade; (incubating) is a highly scalable data management system that can store,index, and manage
+Apache AsterixDB&trade; (incubating) is a highly scalable data management system that can store, index, and manage
 semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
 of SQL (and more).
-Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge
-of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat
-surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to developers today
--- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
+Unlike analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its
+knowledge of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries.
+Somewhat surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to
+developers today -- AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
 
 ### Core features
 
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   those of a NoSQL store.
 
 ### History
-Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside.
-The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS.
-A first informal open source release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
-AsterixDB was accepted into the Apache Incubator and began Incubation as of Febuary of 2015.
+Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and
+students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of
+which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Apache Hadoop world, and the
+semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS. A first informal open source
+release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0. AsterixDB was accepted into
+the Apache Incubator and began Incubation as of Febuary of 2015.
 
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 <h2>About Apache AsterixDB</h2>
-<p>Apache AsterixDB™ (incubating) is a highly scalable data management system that can store,index, and manage
+<p>Apache AsterixDB™ (incubating) is a highly scalable data management system that can store, index, and manage
 semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB, but it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness
 of SQL (and more).
-Unlike analytics engines like Hive or Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge
-of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries. Somewhat
-surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to developers today
-– AsterixDB aims to fill this need.</p>
+Unlike analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark, it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its
+knowledge of data partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data set(s) to process queries.
+Somewhat surprisingly, there is no open source parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to
+developers today – AsterixDB aims to fill this need.</p>
 
 <h3 id="core-features">Core features</h3>
 
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 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="history">History</h3>
-<p>Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside.
-The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Hadoop world, and the semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS.
-A first informal open source release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0.
-AsterixDB was accepted into the Apache Incubator and began Incubation as of Febuary of 2015.</p>
+<p>Prior to being developed at the Apache Software Foundation AsterixDB was co-developed by a team of faculty, staff, and
+students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside. The project was initiated as a large NSF-sponsored project in 2009, the goal of
+which was to combine the best ideas from the parallel database world, the then new Apache Hadoop world, and the
+semi-structured (e.g., XML/JSON) data world in order to create a next-generation BDMS. A first informal open source
+release was made four years later, in June of 2013, under the Apache Software License 2.0. AsterixDB was accepted into
+the Apache Incubator and began Incubation as of Febuary of 2015.</p>
 
 
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