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   <h1 id="apache-quickstep-incubating">Apache Quickstep (Incubating)</h1>

 <p>Quickstep is a high performance database engine. We currently support a SQL interface with plans to support advanced machine learning operations.</p>

 <p>Quickstep’s design starts with an underlying relational kernel core. The key design philosophy is to ensure that these kernels - and compositions of these kernels - can exploit the full potential of the underlying hardware. We call this design principle running at <em>bare-metal speed</em>. Bare-metal means to fully exploit the latest hardware trends including large main memories, fast on-die CPU caches, highly parallel multi-core CPUs, and NVRAM storage technologies.</p>

 <p>For the hardware available in the future, we aim to co-design hardware and software primitives that will allow the data processing kernels to work on increasing amounts of data economically - both from the raw performance perspective, and from the perspective of the energy consumed by the data processing kernels and the applications running on the platform.</p>

 <h2 id="getting-started">Getting Started</h2>
 <p>Quickstep is easy to get set up. It currently runs on a single node and supports a SQL front-end, and doesn’t require tuning parameters. To get started, follow the <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-quickstep/blob/master/README.md">quickstart guide</a>.</p>

 <h2 id="community">Community</h2>
 <p>Quickstep is an Apache (incubating) project. If you want to learn more about the community, follow the dev conversation at <a href="mailto:dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org">dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org</a>. Send a blank email to this address for subscribe instructions. You can also view the <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org/">mail archive</a>.</p>

 <h2 id="roadmap">Roadmap</h2>

 <p>The current roadmap is to produce a platform that can run relational database applications using SQL as the interface. The longer-term roadmap is to cover a broader class of analytics.</p>

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 <p>The link to our blog is <a href="/blog">here</a>.</p>


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	<p>Quickstep is a high performance database engine. We currently support a SQL interface with plans to support advanced machine learning operations.</p>

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	<p>Quickstep is easy to get set up. It currently runs on a single node and supports a SQL front-end, and doesn’t require tuning parameters. To get started, follow the <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-quickstep/blob/master/README.md">quickstart guide</a>.</p>

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	<p>Quickstep is an Apache (incubating) project. If you want to learn more about the community, follow the dev conversation at <a href="mailto:dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org">dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org</a>. Send a blank email to this address for subscribe instructions. You can also view the <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org/">mail archive</a>.</p>

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	<p>The current roadmap is to produce a platform that can run relational database applications using SQL as the interface. The longer-term roadmap is to cover a broader class of analytics.</p>

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