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# Quickstart Overview

In this category, you can follow quickstart tutorials for how to get started with running transactions and queries through ScalarDB.

## Try running transactions through the ScalarDB core library

In this sub-category, you can follow tutorials on how to run ACID transactions through the ScalarDB core library, which is publicly available under the Apache 2 license.

## Try running transactions through ScalarDB Cluster

In this sub-category, you can see tutorials on how to run ACID transactions through ScalarDB Cluster, which is a [gRPC](https://grpc.io/) server that wraps the ScalarDB core library.

:::note

ScalarDB Cluster is available only in the Enterprise edition.

:::

## Try running analytical queries through ScalarDB Analytics

In this sub-category, you can see tutorials on how to run analytical queries over the databases that you write through ScalarDB by using a component called ScalarDB Analytics.
ScalarDB Analytics currently targets only ScalarDB-managed databases, updated through ScalarDB transactions, but will target non-ScalarDB-managed databases in the future.

:::note

- ScalarDB Analytics with PostgreSQL is available only under the Apache 2 License and doesn't require a commercial license.
- ScalarDB Analytics with Spark is in private preview.

:::
