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 **A multimodal database engine written in Nim — 100% native, zero dependencies.**
 
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 BaraDB combines document, graph, vector, columnar, and full-text search storage
 in a single engine with a unified query language (BaraQL). It compiles to a
 single 3.3MB binary with no runtime dependencies.