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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ OceanBase Database has these features:
 
 - High availability: Single server failure recovers automatically. OceanBase Database supports cross-city disaster tolerance for multiple IDCs and zero data loss. OceanBase Database meets the financial industry Level 6 disaster recovery standard (RPO=0, RTO<=30 seconds).
 - Linear scalability: OceanBase Database scales transparently to applications and balances the system load automatically. Its cluster can contain more than 1500 nodes. The data volume can reach petabytes. The records in a single table can be more than a trillion rows.
-- High compatible with MySQL: OceanBase Database is compatible with MySQL protocol and syntax. You can access to OceanBase Database by using MySQL client.
+- Highly compatible with MySQL: OceanBase Database is compatible with MySQL protocol and syntax. You can access to OceanBase Database by using MySQL client.
 - High performance: OceanBase Database supports quasi memory level data change and exclusive encoding compression. Together with the linear scalability, OceanBase Database provides high performance.
 - Low cost: OceanBase Database uses PC servers and cheap SSDs. Its high storage compression ratio and high performance also reduce the storage cost and the computing cost.
 - Multi-tenancy: OceanBase Database supports native multi-tenancy architecture. One cluster supports multiple businesses. Data is isolated among tenants. This reduces the deployment, operation, and maintenance costs.