* Easy-to-use interfaces for C#, VB, C++, and C developers * A proven commercial database system * Support of large-sector drives * Low-footprint, embedded database * Durability as on-disk data store * High performance, capable of handling tens of thousands of operations per second * Asynchronous and synchronous operations * Storage limit of 256 TB * Up to 2GB per record * Flexibility as either a key/value data store or an intrusive key database with segmented key support

* 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 * 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