Stripped-down in a sentence as an adjective

A bare, stripped-down, low-level database engine that does full bypass of the operating system is usually at least 100kLoC of low-level C/C++, and that is before you add all the features a database user will actually want.

This is basically a stripped-down article version of The Now Habit [0], without the good bits, such as guilt-free play, the idea that you should set aside time to do whatever without constantly thinking "I should be working", or the Unschedule, where you mark down the times you actually did good work.

The result will be, I believe, that Oracle will get its day in court but will only be able to proceed with a much-stripped-down version of its claims - something that might hurt Google a bit financially but will pose no real threat to the Android platform as a whole and will amount in time to nothing more than a blip on the radar.

Stripped-down definitions

adjective

having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget"

See also: stripped