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 The JDBC plugin was designed for tabular data. If you have tables with many joins, the JDBC plugin
 is limited in the way to reconstruct deeply nested objects to JSON and process object semantics like object identity.
-Though it would be possible to extend the JDBC plugin with a maaping feature where all the object properties
+Though it would be possible to extend the JDBC plugin with a mapping feature where all the object properties
 could be specified, the current solution is focused on rather simple tabular data streams.
 
 Creating a JDBC river is easy: