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+# Cellar
+
+Cellar is the append-only storage backend in Go designed for the analytical
+workloads. It replaces [geyser-net](https://github.com/abdullin/geyser-net).
+
+Core features:
+
+- events are automatically split into the chunks;
+- chunks are encrypted and compressed;
+- designed for batching operations (high throughput);
+- supports single writer and multiple concurrent readers;
+- store secondary indexes, lookups in the metadata DB.
+
+This storage takes ideas from the [Message Vault](https://github.com/abdullin/messageVault),
+which was based on the ideas of Kafka and append-only storage in [Lokad.CQRS](https://github.com/abdullin/lokad-cqrs)
+
+Analytical pipeline on top of this library was deployed at
+HappyPancake to run real-time aggregation and long-term data analysis
+on the largest social website in Sweden. You can read more about it in
+[Real-time Analytics with Go and LMDB](https://abdullin.com/bitgn/real-time-analytics/).
+
+# License
+
+3-clause BSD license.