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What is Riak?
Riak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.
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Riak is highly available, highly scalable, and has a fast search index.
Riak performs well as a statement document store
A No Hassle Cloud Scale DB
My Riak Review
Great product and fast, beware of deletes!
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What is Riak?
Riak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.
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Riak, a versatile database, has been widely utilized by various teams within organizations for a range of purposes. Users have found it extremely valuable in migrating applications from data centers to the cloud, thanks to its ability to write data that is replicated in the cloud for service lookups. Additionally, Riak's unique feature of linking objects in the database has proven instrumental in constructing hierarchical trees of documents that represent important student administrative and testing data. It serves as a foundation for the operational data store's data model and plays a pivotal role as the backend for the weekly build cycle, which processes massive amounts of data for millions of industrial parts every week. Users have also leveraged Riak's capability to simultaneously feed metadata about each item, which ensures a reliable picture of what the front-end should look like and aids in purging old data. Furthermore, Riak serves as the main database for various web applications such as storage of generated daily merchant statements and for products like the Dittach Platform, where it stores information on all objects and documents managed within the environment. One of the key factors behind choosing Riak is its high availability, scalability, and built-in Apache SOLR for fast searching and indexing, which further enhances its suitability across different use cases.
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(1-2 of 2)Riak still alive and kicking!
- Key-Value storage along with CRDTs
- Fault tolerance
- 100% uptime
- Massively scalable
- Consistent response speeds
- Multi datacentre replication
- Geographic replication/redundancy
- Is free to use
- Lots of client libraries
- Missing a free text search function
- More security work
- Multi-tenant reporting
- More types of index optimised for different structures
- Automating repairs especially after unclean shutdowns
- WebDAV/Samba shares for Riak CS
- Implementing the SQL queries from Riak TS in Riak KV
- Settable replication bandwidth caps
- Safemode start up after failure
- More client integrations
- Performance
- 100%10.0
- Availability
- 100%10.0
- Concurrency
- 100%10.0
- Security
- 60%6.0
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Data model flexibility
- 100%10.0
- Deployment model flexibility
- 100%10.0
- Great ROI, has helped us generate significant revenue.
- Low support costs as it hardly ever has any problems once correctly set up.
- The only issue we had in so far was one development cluster overheating and periodically shutting down when its cooling system failed but that's a hardware issue, not a software one.
- Highly available: If nodes go offline for any reason, the system still operates.
- Highly scalable: There is a minimum of 5 nodes, which can handle a lot by themselves. When scaling is required, it can be done easily, with minimal to no downtime on large scales.
- Very fast searching: Riak has SOLR indexing built-into the core product, which makes querying for data very fast.
- When the index definition changes, reindexing takes an extremely long time.
- Support (both paid and community based) is very very lacking.
- It is expensive to run.
- Performance
- 90%9.0
- Availability
- 100%10.0
- Concurrency
- 100%10.0
- Security
- 90%9.0
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Data model flexibility
- 90%9.0
- Deployment model flexibility
- 90%9.0
Riak's SOLR engine is fast, however if you have extremely high amount of queries in a very limited time range, it can fail in a bad way.
- Riak has had a positive impact in the fact that it is still a very fast data store and can scale very well over time.
- Riak has had a negative impact as it is one of the most expensive pieces of our architecture.
- Riak's SOLR engine failed us at a critical moment which seriously hurt the company. Our use case is very different than the norm, so I don't expect this to affect most people.