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 * [hiberlite](https://github.com/paulftw/hiberlite) - C++ Object-relational mapping for sqlite3. [BSD]
 * [Hiredis](https://github.com/redis/hiredis) - A minimalistic C client library for the Redis database. [BSD]
-* [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb) - A fast key-value storage library. [BSD]
+* [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb) - A fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values. [BSD]
 * [LMDB](http://symas.com/mdb/) - Very fast embedded key/value store with full ACID semantics. [OpenLDAP]
 * [LMDB++](https://github.com/bendiken/lmdbxx) - C++11 wrapper for the LMDB embedded database library. [PublicDomain]
 * [MongoDB C Driver](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver) - MongoDB client library for C. [Apache2]