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NameTarantool
DescriptionIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.01
Rank#155  Overall
#27  Key-value stores
Websitewww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperVK
Initial release2008
Current release2.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesHash sharding based on virtual buckets
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes, with SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles

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Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication
9 November 2021,  Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor) 

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