TARANTOOL/BOX, http://tarantool.org

Tarantool is a framework for in-memory key/value storage and Box is a yet another in-memory key-value database.

Key features of the pair include:

• log streaming replication
• hot standby
• a simple binary protocol, as well as emulation of memcached protocol
• extensibility and speed

Caveats:

• supported platforms are Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86
• supported compilers are clang and gcc.

COMPILATION AND INSTALL

Tarantool is written in C and Objective C. To build, you will need GCC Objective C frontend (gcc-objc package on most systems) or Apple CLang compiler.

CMake is used for configuration management. 3 standard CMake build types are supported:

• Debug -- used by project maintainers
• RelWithDebugInfo -- the most common release configuration, also provides debugging capabilities
• Release -- use only if the highest performance is required

The only external library dependency is readline: libreadline-dev is required to build the command line client.

There are two OPTIONAL dependencies:

• uuid-dev. It is required for box.uuid_* functions.
• GNU bfd (part of GNU binutils). It's used to print a stack trace after a crash.

Please follow these steps to compile Tarantool:

tarantool $ cmake . tarantool $ make

To use a different release type, say, RelWithDebugInfo, use:

tarantool $ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo

Additional build options can be set similarly:

tarantool $ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo -DENABLE_CLIENT=true

-- builds the command line client.

'make' creates tarantool_box executable in directory src/box and tarantool executable in client/tarantool.

There is no 'make install' goal, but no installation is required either. Tarantool regression testing framework (test/test-run.py) is the simplest way to setup and start the server, but it requires a few additional Python modules:

• daemon
• pyyaml
• pexpect.

Once all pre-requisites are installed, try:

tarantool $ cd test && ./test-run.py --suite box --start-and-exit

This will create a 'var' subdirectory in directory 'test', populate it with necessary files, and start the server. To connect, you could use a simple command-line client:

''' tarantool $ ./test/tarantool '''

Alternatively, if a customized server configuration is required, you could follow these steps:

tarantool $ emacs cfg/tarantool_box_cfg.cfg # edit the configuration
# Initialize the storage directory, path to this directory
# is specified in the configuration file:
tarantool $ src/box/tarantool_box --config cfg/tarantool_box_cfg.cfg --init-storage
#
# run
tarantool $ src/box/tarantool_box --config cfg/tarantool_box_cfg.cfg

Please report bugs at http://bugs.launchpad.net/tarantool. We also warmly welcome your feedback in the discussion mailing list, tarantool-developers@lists.launchpad.net, however, please be warned: Launchpad silently deletes posts from non-subscribed members, thus please be sure to have subscribed to the list prior to posting.

Thank you for your interest in Tarantool!