# CefasDB

> CefasDB is an open-source NoSQL key-value and document database for predictable millisecond latency, horizontal scale, native vectors, SQL, and a small operational footprint.

CefasDB is built for developers and operators evaluating operational databases, DynamoDB-like data models, native vector search, SQL over NoSQL data, Raft-backed replication, and self-hosted deployment.

## Product

- [Features](https://www.cefasdb.com/features): Core database capabilities, vector search, SQL, security, and operations.
- [Internals](https://www.cefasdb.com/internals): Architecture, data model, storage, read path, write path, replication, networking, and drivers.
- [Plugins](https://www.cefasdb.com/plugins): Index, sketch, distance, vector, and audience workflow plugins.
- [Benchmarks](https://www.cefasdb.com/benchmark): Latency, throughput, workload methodology, and reproducibility notes.

## Comparisons

- [CefasDB vs. DynamoDB](https://www.cefasdb.com/compare/dynamodb): Typed JSON, predictable cost, self-hosting, SQL, and native ANN search.
- [CefasDB vs. Cassandra](https://www.cefasdb.com/compare/cassandra): Raft consistency, simpler operations, p99 latency, and hot-range mitigation.
- [CefasDB vs. MongoDB](https://www.cefasdb.com/compare/mongodb): Document data with native vector search, deterministic placement, and plugin-backed indexes.
- [CefasDB vs. Redis](https://www.cefasdb.com/compare/redis): Persistent storage, memory-class tables, SQL, vectors, and multi-region deployment.

## Documentation

- [Documentation Home](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/Home): Entry point for concepts, getting started, plugins, interfaces, and operations.
- [Getting Started](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/Get-Started-Overview): Recommended path for installing and trying CefasDB.
- [Architecture Overview](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/Concepts-Architecture-Overview): System architecture and major components.
- [Data Model](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/Concepts-Data-Model): Partition keys, sort keys, typed JSON attributes, tables, and indexes.
- [Operations Overview](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/Operations-Overview): Configuration, backups, observability, security, and production operations.
- [API Reference](https://www.cefasdb.com/docs/api): Generated public Go package documentation when available.

## Developers and Source

- [Developer Guide](https://www.cefasdb.com/developers): Install paths, Docker, Kubernetes, CLI, Go client, HTTP, and gRPC examples.
- [Browser Sandbox](https://www.cefasdb.com/try): Run CefasDB in a browser-hosted Linux environment.
- [Core repository](https://github.com/CefasDb/cefasdb-core): Source code, releases, issues, and changelog.
- [CefasDB GitHub organization](https://github.com/CefasDb): Project repositories and community entry points.
- [Discussions](https://github.com/orgs/CefasDb/discussions): Community questions and proposals.

## Expanded machine-readable context

- [llms-full.txt](https://www.cefasdb.com/llms-full.txt): Product facts, canonical links, route summaries, and common search variants for answer engines.