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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
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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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(1-6 of 6)Riak still alive and kicking!
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 performs well as a statement document store
A No Hassle Cloud Scale DB
My Riak Review
Great product and fast, beware of deletes!
Riak is well suited as a key value store. It does exactly what it says it does. If you have well known buckets/keys, Riak is a great solution for a ton of different use cases. The lack of ability to search is somewhat problematic for other use cases requiring this ability.
Also, while the ability to store a variable array of data into a single bucket/key is extremely useful, if you have a use case requiring parts of that value to be updated independently, Riak does not support transactions so you open yourself up to contention issues if the data is being updated regularly in small portions. One solution to this is to use multiple bucket/key parts to store the data, which will remove the contention issue, but then you have to increase your Riak footprint which results in more buckets and can sometimes make things more difficult than needed. This has been a nagging issue we've had to deal with on multiple occasions.