tarantool

NoSQL database running in a Lua application server

Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server. Key features of the application server: - 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 Key features of the database: - MsgPack data format and MsgPack based client-server protocol - two data engines: 100% in-memory with optional persistence and a 2-level disk-based B-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 app server and can be turned off