tarantool

http://tarantool.org

Tarantool is an efficient NoSQL database and a Lua application server.

Key features of the Lua application server:

• 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, based on LuaJIT 2.0. 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, 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

Supported platforms are Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86, Mac OS X.

Tarantool is ideal for data-enriched components of scalable Web architecture: queue servers, caches, stateful Web applications.

Compilation and install

Tarantool is written in C and C++. To build, you will need GCC or Apple CLang compiler.

CMake is used for configuration management. 3 standard CMake build types are supported:

• Debug -- used by project maintainers
• RelWithDebugInfo -- the most common release configuration, also provides debugging capabilities
• Release -- use only if the highest performance is required

The build depends on the following external libraries:

• libreadline and libreadline-dev
• GNU bfd (part of GNU binutils).

Please follow these steps to compile Tarantool:

# If compiling from git
tarantool $ git submodule update --init

tarantool $ cmake .
tarantool $ make

To use a different release type, say, RelWithDebugInfo, use:

tarantool $ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo

Additional build options can be set similarly:

tarantool $ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo -DENABLE_DOC=true # builds the docs

'make' creates 'tarantool' executable in directory src/.

There is no 'make install' goal, but no installation is required either.

To start the server, try:

tarantool $ ./src/tarantool

This will start Tarantool in interactive mode.

To run Tarantool regression tests (test/test-run.py), a few additional Python modules are ncessary:

• daemon
• pyyaml
• msgpack-python

Simply type 'make test' to fire off the test coverage.

Please report bugs at http://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues We also warmly welcome your feedback in the discussion mailing list, tarantool@googlegroups.com.

Thank you for your interest in Tarantool!