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README.md

+TokuDB
+======
+
+TokuDB is a high-performance, transactional storage engine for MySQL and
+MariaDB.  For more details, see our [product page][products].
+
+This repository contains the MySQL plugin that uses the [TokuKV][tokukv].
+
+There are also patches to the MySQL and MariaDB kernels, available in our
+forks of [mysql][mysql] and [mariadb][mariadb].
+
+[products]: http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokudb-for-mysql/
+[tokukv]: http://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index
+[mysql]: http://github.com/Tokutek/mysql
+[mariadb]: http://github.com/Tokutek/mariadb
+
+
+Building
+--------
+
+The `scripts/` directory contains a script that can be used to build a
+working MySQL or MariaDB with Tokutek patches, and with the TokuDB storage
+engine, called `make.mysql.bash`.  This script will download copies of the
+needed source code from github and build everything.
+
+To build MySQL with TokuDB 7.0.0:
+```sh
+scripts/make.mysql.bash --git_tag=tokudb-7.0.0
+```
+
+To build MariaDB with TokuDB 7.0.0:
+```sh
+scripts/make.mysql.bash --git_tag=tokudb-7.0.0 --mysql=mariadb-5.5.30
+```
+
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+Please report bugs in TokuKV here on github.
+
+We have two publicly accessible mailing lists:
+
+ - tokudb-user@googlegroups.com is for general and support related
+   questions about the use of TokuDB, TokuKV, and TokuDS.
+ - tokudb-dev@googlegroups.com is for discussion of the development of
+   TokuDB, TokuKV, and TokuDS.
+
+We are also available on IRC on freenode.org, in the #tokutek channel.
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+TokuDB is available under the GPL version 2.  See [COPYING][copying].
+
+TokuKV (a component of TokuDB) is available under the GPL with slight
+modifications.  See [README-TOKUDB][license] in the ft-index repository.
+
+[copying]: http://github.com/Tokutek/ft-engine/blob/master/COPYING
+[license]: http://github.com/Tokutek/ft-index/blob/master/README-TOKUDB