This document introduces Mroonga, a storage engine for MariaDB that provides fast full-text search capabilities for Japanese text. It discusses how Mroonga is faster than other options like InnoDB FTS through its optimized inverted index implementation and column-store architecture. The document also explains that Mroonga is easy for beginners to use as it requires only standard MySQL features and is pre-bundled with MariaDB. More advanced features allow customizations for specialists.