# Tarantool
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http://tarantool.org
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
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.
To download and install Tarantool as a binary package for your OS, please visit
https://tarantool.org/download.html.
To build Tarantool from source, see detailed instructions in the Tarantool
documentation at https://tarantool.org/doc/dev_guide/building_from_source.html.
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!
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