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 An in-memory, NoSQL database implemented in Python, with support for building custom ranking algorithms.
 
+You can run full text search queries on thousands of documents with multiple fields in < 1ms.
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 [Try a site search engine built with JameSQL](https://jamesg.blog/search-pages/)
 
 Here is an example of a search engine with a JameSQL back-end: