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diff --git a/databases/tarantool/pkg-descr b/databases/tarantool/pkg-descr index 5aa8eae50970..e183e661eee6 100644 --- a/databases/tarantool/pkg-descr +++ b/databases/tarantool/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ -Tarantool/Box, or simply Tarantool, is a high performance key/value -storage server. The code is available for free under the terms of -BSD license. Supported platforms are GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. +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 WWW: http://tarantool.org/ |