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-# CrateDB Documentation
+# Welcome to CrateDB! 
 
-Documentation overview for CrateDB and CrateDB Cloud.
-<br>
-Reference manuals, tutorials, example code, and more.
+CrateDB is designed to handle your demanding analytics and search workloads with
+ease. Here you'll find comprehensive resources including reference manuals,
+tutorials, example code, and more.
 
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+Happy learning and building with CrateDB!
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-CrateDB Cloud is a fully managed, terabyte-scale, and cost-effective analytics
-database that lets you run analytics over vast amounts of data in near real time,
-even with complex queries.
+Discover our fully managed, scalable SQL database designed for
+real-time search and analytics. It supports fast analytics applications with
+real-time indexing of time-series, JSON, vector, text, and geo data. Perform
+near real-time analytics on vast data sets with complex queries and streamline
+data management across multiple cloud providers.
 
-CrateDB Cloud is an SQL database service for enterprise data warehouse workloads,
-that works across clouds and scales with your data.
+[Get started now!](https://cratedb.com/docs/cloud/tutorials/quick-start.html)
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-:::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`auto_stories;1.7em` Database Manual
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+:::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`auto_stories;1.7em` Reference Manual
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 :link-alt: CrateDB Cloud
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-CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and
-analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries.
-It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene. 
-
-CrateDB is an open source multi-model database for time series, documents
-and vectors, combining the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of a
-distributed architecture.
-:::
-
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+Want to dive deep into CrateDB? Explore our comprehensive reference manual.
 
+At the core of CrateDB Cloud sits CrateDB, our open-source, distributed, and
+scalable SQL database system designed for storing and analyzing massive amounts
+of data in real-time, even with complex queries. 
 
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+Based on Lucene, CrateDB supports time series, documents, and vectors, combining
+the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of a distributed architecture
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 :::{grid-item-card} {material-outlined}`link;1.7em` Client Libraries
 :link: https://cratedb.com/docs/crate/clients-tools/en/latest/connect/
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 which ensures that many clients that work with PostgreSQL, will also work with
 CrateDB. Through corresponding drivers, CrateDB is compatible with [ODBC],
 [JDBC], and other database API specifications.
-
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