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The reference tells you what a command takes. This section tells you what the database is doing and why, which is the part that decides whether you reach for the right command in the first place.

Introduction to StrataDB is the long-form answer to what Strata is. From there, How Strata works covers the machinery that is shared by everything else: branches, commits and versions, time travel, and what it means for a database to be a directory.

Working with data takes the five data models one at a time. They live in the same database, under the same history, andthe tour is the place to start if you are not sure which one you want.