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    <h1>Clojure Monger</h1>
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    Monger is a Clojure MongoDB client for a more civilized age: friendly, flexible and with batteries included.
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    <h2>Feature Rich</h2>
    <p>Comprehensive support for MongoDB 2.2+ features. Convenient GridFS support, JavaScript resources. New MongoDB features make it into Monger quickly.</p>
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    <h2>Clojuric</h2>
    <p>When you use Monger, you use Clojure data structures and types and they are automatically translated into MongoDB/BSON
       data types. Querying can be done via standard MongoDB query language or Monger's own expressive Clojure DSL inspired by <a href="http://sqlkorma.com/">Korma</a>.</p>
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    <h2>Safe, Sane Defaults</h2>
    <p>Official MongoDB drivers have defaults that trade safety for write throughput. Monger's defaults emphasize safety and predictability.</p>
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    <h2>Very Fast</h2>
    <p>Monger has very low overhead compared to the MongoDB Java driver and demonstrates impressive write throughput even with safe write concern being the default.</p>
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    <h2>Batteries Included</h2>
    <p>Includes (optional) integration with popular Clojure libraries, <a href="https://github.com/michaelklishin/validateur">Clojure validation library</a> conveniently provided, unit testing support, core.cache implementation on top of MongoDB and more.</p>
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    <h2>PaaS Ready</h2>
    <p>Monger supports features necessary to deploy applications to PaaS environments such as Heroku, for example, connection and authentication using server URI. </p>
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