Tarantool Overview Documentation Download Rocks Support Tarantool is a NoSQL database running inside a Lua program. It combines the network programming power of Node.JS with data persistency capabilities of Redis. It's open source , BSD licensed. The latest release is Tarantool 1.6.3, published on July 20, 2014. a 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, Lua packages for non-blocking I/O, fibers and HTTP, 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, secondary key and index iterators support, asynchronous master-master replication, authentication and access control. Our online shell gives a taste of these features and is a Tarantool Lua script ....