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## Preface

This document is intended to provide a rapid introduction to the Oracle NoSQL Database Streams API. This API is an implementation of the Reactive Streams standard, which provides for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure. See Reactive Streams.

### Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used within this manual:

Information that you are to type literally is presented in `monospaced` font.

Variable or non-literal text is presented in italics. For example: "Go to your KVHOME directory."

Note:

Finally, notes of special interest are represented using a note block such as this.