# Polecat

> .NET Event Store and Document Database on SQL Server 2025

Marten-inspired library for SQL Server in the Critter Stack ecosystem

## Table of Contents

### Introduction

- [Polecat: A SQL Server-Native Event Store and Document Database](/whitepaper.md)
- [Introduction](/introduction.md)
- [Getting Started](/getting-started.md)

### Configuration

- [Bootstrapping Polecat](/configuration/hostbuilder.md)
- [Configuring Document Storage](/configuration/storeoptions.md)
- [JSON Serialization](/configuration/json.md)
- [Resiliency Policies](/configuration/retries.md)
- [Multi-Tenancy](/configuration/multitenancy.md)
- [MCP Server](/configuration/mcp.md)
- [JasperFx Commands in the Aspire Dashboard ](/configuration/aspire-commands.md)

### Document Database

- [Polecat as Document DB](/documents.md)
- [Document Identity](/documents/identity.md)
- [Database Storage](/documents/storage.md)
- [Polecat Metadata](/documents/metadata.md)
- [Opening Sessions](/documents/sessions.md)
- [Storing Documents](/documents/storing.md)
- [Deleting Documents](/documents/deletes.md)
- [Indexing Documents](/documents/indexing.md)
- [Querying Documents](/documents/querying.md)
- [Multi-Tenanted Documents](/documents/multi-tenancy.md)
- [Table Partitioning](/documents/partitioning.md)
- [Initial Baseline Data](/documents/initial-data.md)
- [Optimistic Concurrency](/documents/concurrency.md)
- [Partial Updates / Patching](/documents/partial-updates-patching.md)
- [Bulk Insert](/documents/bulk-insert.md)
- [Polecat.AspNetCore](/documents/aspnetcore.md)

#### Indexing Documents

- [Computed Indexes](/documents/indexing/computed-indexes.md)
- [JSON Indexes](/documents/indexing/json-indexes.md)

#### Querying Documents

- [Loading Documents by Id](/documents/querying/byid.md)
- [Querying Documents with LINQ](/documents/querying/linq.md)
- [Supported LINQ Operators](/documents/querying/linq/operators.md)
- [Querying within Child Collections](/documents/querying/linq/child-collections.md)
- [Searching on String Fields](/documents/querying/linq/strings.md)
- [Paging](/documents/querying/linq/paging.md)
- [Querying for Raw JSON](/documents/querying/query-json.md)
- [Batched Queries](/documents/querying/batched-queries.md)

### Event Store

- [Polecat as Event Store](/events.md)
- [Event Store Quick Start](/events/quickstart.md)
- [Event Storage](/events/storage.md)
- [Appending Events](/events/appending.md)
- [Querying Events](/events/querying.md)
- [Event Metadata](/events/metadata.md)
- [Archiving Streams](/events/archiving.md)
- [Snapshot Projections](/events/snapshots.md)
- [Natural Keys](/events/natural-keys.md)
- [Dynamic Consistency Boundary (DCB)](/events/dcb.md)
- [Projections Overview](/events/projections.md)
- [Event Subscriptions](/events/subscriptions.md)
- [Event Multi-Tenancy](/events/multitenancy.md)

#### Projections Overview

- [Single Stream Projections](/events/projections/single-stream-projections.md)
- [Multi Stream Projections](/events/projections/multi-stream-projections.md)
- [Event Projections](/events/projections/event-projections.md)
- [Live Aggregations](/events/projections/live-aggregates.md)
- [Inline Projections](/events/projections/inline.md)
- [Flat Table Projections](/events/projections/flat.md)
- [Composite Projections](/events/projections/composite.md)
- [Asynchronous Projections](/events/projections/async-daemon.md)
- [EF Core Projections](/events/projections/efcore.md)
- [Using Ancillary Stores in Projections](/events/projections/ancillary-stores.md)
- [ProjectLatest — Include Pending Events](/events/projections/project-latest.md)
- [Side Effects](/events/projections/side-effects.md)

### Testing

- [Integration Testing](/testing/integration.md)

### Diagnostics

- [Diagnostics and Instrumentation](/diagnostics.md)

### Schema

- [Database Management](/schema.md)
- [How Documents are Stored](/schema/storage.md)
- [Schema Migrations](/schema/migrations.md)
- [Exporting Schema Definition](/schema/exporting.md)
- [Tearing Down Document Storage](/schema/cleaning.md)

### Other

- [Migration Guide](/migration-guide.md)
- [Projection source-generator dispatch audit (Polecat#108)](/projection-sg-audit-108.md)