Product

Riak - web-shaped data storage system

High Scalability

Oct 8, 2009

Update: Short presentation NYC by Bryan Fink demonstrating the riak web-shaped data storage engine

Riak is another new and interesting key-value store entrant. Some of the features it offers are:

Document-oriented
Scalable, decentralized key-value store
Standard get, put, and delete operations.
Distributed, fault-tolerant storage solution.
Configurable levels of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance
Support for Erlang, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java, Python, HTTP
open source and NoSQL
Pluggable backends
Eventing system
Monitoring
Inter-cluster replication
Links between records that can be traversed.
Map/Reduce. Functions are executed on the data node. One interesting difference is that a list keys are required to specify which values are operated on as apposed to running calculations on all values.

Hacker News Thread. More juicy details on how Riak compares to Cassandra, mongodb, couchdb, etc.

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