* High performance read/write for a key-value based object * High reliable persistent storage with transcation * High availability data storage with replication * Memcache protocol compatibility * MemcacheDB is compatible with memcache protocol, so any clients that support memcache protocol have connectivity with it.

* 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