Trill/README.md

# Contributing

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# Introduction

Trill is a high-performance one-pass in-memory streaming analytics engine from Microsoft Research. It can handle both real-time and offline data, and is based on a temporal data and query model. Trill can be used as a streaming engine, a lightweight in-memory relational engine, and as a progressive query processor (for early query results on partial data).

# Getting Started

1. Of course, the sources are right here!
2. You can get binaries from our [NuGet feed](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Trill/).
3. You can also check out samples of Trill usage at our [samples repository](https://github.com/Microsoft/TrillSamples).

# Learn More

- The [Trill paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/trill-vldb2015.pdf) appeared at VLDB.
- An [article](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/trill-debull.pdf) on Trill appeared in the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin.
- The [Trill technical report](http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/214609/trill-TR.pdf).
- Additional documents located in the /Documentation directory:
    - TrillQueryWritingGuide: introduces basic concepts of Trill query authoring
    - Ingress: describes how data is ingressed into and egressed out of Trill
    - TrillInternals: outlines Trill innovations and internals
    - BestPractices: describes best practices low-memory real-time deployments 
    - HighAvailability: details Trill high-availability support
    - UserDefinedAggregates: introduces a framework for query authors to create custom aggregates