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+    <title>Apache AsterixDB</title>
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+        <a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/index.html"><img src="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/img/asterixdb.png" style="height:75px; width:auto; vertical-align:bottom; margin-top:10px;"/></a>
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+        <div class="container">
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+              <span class="icon-bar"></span>
+              <span class="icon-bar"></span>
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+            <a class="navbar-brand" href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/index.html">Overview</a>
+          </div>
+          <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
+            <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
+              <li><a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/download.html">Download</a></li>
+              <li class="dropdown">
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Documentation<span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Stable release</li>
+                  <li><a href="http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation/index.html">Documentation for 0.8.6<i class="fa fa-external-link fa-sm"></i></a></li>
+                  <li class="divider"></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Snapshot release</li>
+                  <li><a href="https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-test-full/site/asterix-doc/index.html">Documentation for 0.8.7-SNAPSHOT  <i class="fa fa-external-link fa-sm"></i></a></li>
+                </ul>
+              </li>
+              <li><a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/about.html">About</a></li>
+              <li><a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/community.html">Community</a></li>
+              <li class="dropdown">
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
+                  <li><a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
+                  <li class="divider"></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
+                  <li><a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
+                </ul>
+              </li>
+            </ul>
+          </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
+        </div>
+      </nav>
+
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+  <div class="row">
+ <div class="col-md-9 col-centered">
+   <div class="well text-center"><p class="lead text-center"><strong>Apache AsterixDB</strong> is an open source Big Data Management System (BDMS).</p>
+   </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="row"><div class="col-md-3 col-centered text-center">
+    <h2 id="feature-overview">Feature Overview</h2>
+
+    <hr />
+
+  </div></div>
+
+<div class="text-center">
+<div class="col-md-5 col-md-offset-1">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">Data feeds</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-sitemap fa-4x pull-left "></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>Process incoming live data, and store it- seamlessly.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-5">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">Scalable runtime</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-signal fa-4x pull-left"></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>AsterixDB is built on Hyracks, a parallel dataflow engine scale tested on hundreds of nodes.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="text-center">
+
+<div class="col-md-5 col-md-offset-1">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">External data</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-database fa-4x pull-left"></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>Query and index your data in HDFS alongside data stored in AsterixDB.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-5">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">Semi-structured data model</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-table fa-4x pull-left"></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>Give your data as much or as little schema as you want, in one system.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="text-center">
+
+<div class="col-md-5 col-md-offset-1">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">Log-structured storage</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-flask fa-4x pull-left"></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>AsterixDB uses state of the art indexing techniques to support high speed data ingestion.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+
+  </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-5">
+    <div class="panel panel-primary">
+      <h4 class="panel-heading">Rich datatypes</h4>
+
+      <div class="panel-body">
+
+<div class="col-md-2">
+          <p><i class="fa fa-gear fa-4x pull-left"></i></p>
+        </div>
+
+<div class="col-md-10">
+          <p>AsterixDB extends JSON datatypes with support for spatial and temporal data.</p>
+        </div>
+
+</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="row">
+</div>
+
+<div class="row"><div class="col-md-5 col-centered text-center">
+
+    <h2 id="getting-started">Getting Started</h2>
+
+    <hr />
+
+  </div></div>
+
+<div class="row">
+<div class="col-md-6">
+    <h3 id="download">Download</h3>
+    <p>You can download the latest stable release here.</p>
+
+    <p><a class="btn btn-md btn-success" href="http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/download/0.8.6/asterix-installer-0.8.6-binary-assembly.zip" role="button">Download AsterixDB 0.8.6 <i class="fa fa-download fa-lg"></i></a></p>
+
+    <p>See the installation <a href="http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation/install.html">guide</a>, and check out <a href="http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation/aql/primer.html">AsterixDB 101</a> to start using AsterixDB right away.</p>
+
+  </div>
+<div class="col-md-6">
+    <h3 id="community-and-support">Community and Support</h3>
+    <p>If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on our <a href="&#109;&#097;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;:&#117;&#115;&#101;&#114;&#115;&#064;&#097;&#115;&#116;&#101;&#114;&#105;&#120;&#100;&#098;&#046;&#105;&#110;&#099;&#117;&#098;&#097;&#116;&#111;&#114;&#046;&#097;&#112;&#097;&#099;&#104;&#101;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#103;">users</a> mailing list, which you can subscribe to by sending an empty email to <a href="users-subscribe@asterixdb.incubator.apache.org">users-subscribe</a>. Check out the <a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/community.html">Community</a> page for more details.</p>
+
+    <p>If you would like to know more about how to contribute to AsterixDB or any of its related components, head on over to the <a href="https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/dev-setup.html">Contributing</a> page to learn more.</p>
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+        <p>Apache AsterixDB, Apache, and the Apache feather logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation</p>
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