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It’s great for server less and real-time applications. It would be great for gaming and mobile apps. However, if you need relational database and have fixed budget, do not use it. While budget can be managed, you need to be careful. Also this is not a tool for storing big data, there are other wide-column database types you could use for it ins the ad
Riak is well suited to applications such as: Transaction logging e.g. financial transactions and/or exchange rates. Storing time series data, especially IoT. Storing massive amounts of data e.g. corporation wide backups, data lakes etc.A fully s3 compatible replacement for Amazon s3 ensuring data privacy. Riak is not as well suited to:Traditional RDBMS functions, especially those that join the outputs of one or more queries together to produce the desired result.
To manage varying workloads, it enables users to increase capacity as necessary and decrease it as needed.Users can take advantage of its auto-scaling, in-memory caching, and backup without paying for the services of a database administrator.We can use it for low scale operations.Incentivized
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.Incentivized
Cost model may not be easy to control and may lead to higher costs if not carefully plannedIndexing may be a cost culprit when not planned, because it's not included on the data costsThe Query Language may not fulfill everybody's expectations, as it has less features than those of competitors.Incentivized
Deletes!!! We've seen on numerous occasions where Riak has "resurrected" deleted data. We've worked with Basho numerous times and tried multiple changes to the way we interact with Riak to prevent the problem but it still remains. The deletes seem to reappear weeks, even months, after the delete was issued. We've had to work around this issue by providing a "deleted" flag for all data objects stored in Riak. Thus, we do no delete but simply flip the flag. Excess baggage we would really like to not have to worry about.Search. Currently there's no way to tell what data you have in Riak without already knowing a particular bucket/key. There is a way to list the keys for a given bucket but due to performance implications, this is not a viable method to lookup data. Especially when you have a large amount of keys in the bucket.Incentivized
It's core to our business, we couldn't survive without it. We use it to drive everything from FTP logins to processing stories and delivering them to clients. It's reliable and easy to query from all of our pipeline services. Integration with things like AWS Lambda makes it easy to trigger events and run code whenever something changes in the database.Incentivized
Right now, I'm on a project where we need databases that can run on embedded systems. Riak isn't necessarily the best fit for that scenario. But when we need a clustered database, that's where we'd start considering Riak.Incentivized
Functionally, DynamoDB has the features needed to use it. The interface is not as easy to use, which impacts its usability. Being familiar with AWS in general is helpful in understanding the interface, however it would be better if the interface more closely aligned with traditional tools for managing datastores.Incentivized
It works very well across all the regions and response time is also very quick due to AWS's internal data transfer. Plus if your product requires HIPPA or some other regulations needs to be followed, you can easily replicate the DB into multiple regions and they manage all by it's own.Incentivized
I have not had to contact support for this service, however I have had to contact AWS for other services and their support has been good.Incentivized
Despite Basho going bankrupt and the project becoming fully open-source, community support is reasonably good, albeit a little slow at times. Paid enterprise-grade support is also available from former Basho engineers but the same company also contributes to the community support for free for basic questions or specific knowledge areas.
The only thing that can be compared to DynamoDB from the selected services can be Aurora. It is just that we use Aurora for High-Performance requirements as it can be 6 times faster than normal RDS DB. Both of them have served as well in the required scenario and we are very happy with most of the AWS services.Incentivized
Because of the RESTful HTTP interface, the consistency model, and because of the catalog-driven data model, Riak was an easy win over Redis and Memcached.Incentivized
I have taken one point away due to its size limits. In case the application requires queries, it becomes really complicated to read and write data. When it comes to extremely large data sets such as the case in my company, a third-party logistics company, where huge amount of data is generated on a daily basis, even though the scalability is good, it becomes difficult to manage all the data due to limits.Incentivized
Some developers see DynamoDB and try to fit problems to it, instead of picking the best solution for a given problem. This is true of any newer tool that people are trying to adopt.It has allowed us to add more scalability to some of our systems.As with any new technology there was a ramp up/rework phase as we learned best practices.Incentivized
Riak has been a key part of our company's build process for our client's search backend. It is valuable for is in that it provides a reliable way to view the current search index.Incentivized