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-About Ringo SQLstore
-===============
+# About Ringo SQLstore
 
-Ringo SQLstore is a lightweight ORM/storage implementation for [RingoJS]. It uses JDBC for communication with databases. Current features are:
+Ringo SQLstore is a lightweight ORM/storage implementation for [RingoJS](http://ringojs.org/). It uses JDBC for communication with databases. Current features are:
 
 * Creation of tables and sequences
 * Transaction support
 * Lazy loading
 * One-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many mappings
 * Connection pooling
-* Entity cache
+* Object caching
+* Easy SQL-like querying
 
-Supported databases are H2, MySQL (5.x), Oracle (XE) and PostgreSQL (8.x). H2 is part of the package, so one can start right off using it without the hassle of installing and configuring a database.
+Currently supported databases are [H2](http://h2database.com), [MySQL (5.x)](http://mysql.com), [Oracle (XE)](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/express-edition/overview/index.html) and [PostgreSQL (8.x)](http://postgresql.org). H2 is part of the package, so you can start right off using it without the hassle of installing and configuring a database.
 
-SQLstore is heavily inspired by
-
-* [ringo-hibernate] by Robert Thurnher
-* [Helma] (the predecessor of RingoJS)
-* [Hibernate] Project
-
-Status
-======
+## Status
 
-Ringo SQLstore is experimental beta, so expect bugs and performance issues as well as significant API changes.
+Although Ringo SQLstore is pre-1.0, it has been used in production in various applications for several years now. Nevertheless chances are that on the way to version 1.0 there will be incompatible API changes.
 
-Documentation
-====================
+## Documentation
 
 Documentation is available at https://github.com/grob/ringo-sqlstore/wiki
 
+## Acknowledgements
+
+SQLstore is heavily inspired by
 
- [RingoJS]: http://ringojs.org/
- [ringo-hibernate]: http://github.com/robi42/ringo-hibernate/
- [Helma]: http://helma.org
- [Hibernate]: http://hibernate.org/
- [database]: http://github.com/grob/ringo-sqlstore/tree/master/lib/ringo/storage/sql/databases/
+* [[ringo-hibernate | http://github.com/robi42/ringo-hibernate/]] by Robert Thurnher
+* [[Helma | http://helma.org]] (the predecessor of RingoJS)
+* [[Hibernate | http://hibernate.org]] Project