Tarantool – fast, scalable, and reliable in-memory computing platform

Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server.

Tarantool can be used in OLTP scenarios instead of relational databases, and such a solution will work many times faster. With Tarantool, you can replace the traditional bundle of database & cache and benefit from that by reducing operational costs.

It’s is tolerant to write-heavy load. Also, you will be able to keep full-featured applications next to the data thus reducing the data access network latency to zero.

The software is free and open source software.

Features of the application server include:

• 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, based on LuaJIT 2.1. Simply use #!/usr/bin/tarantool instead of #!/usr/bin/lua in your script.
• Full support for Lua modules and a rich set of own modules, including cooperative multitasking, non-blocking I/O, access to external databases, etc

Features of the database include:

• ANSI SQL, including views, joins, referential and check constraints.
• MsgPack data format and MsgPack based client-server protocol.
• Two data engines: 100% in-memory with optional persistence and an own implementation of LSM-tree, to use with large data sets.
• Multiple index types: HASH, TREE, RTREE, BITSET.
• Asynchronous master-master replication.
• Authentication and access control.
• The database is just a C extension to the application server and can be turned off.

Website: www.tarantool.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Tarantool authors
License: Simplified BSD License

Tarantool is written in Lua and C. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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