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    IBM IMS

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM IMS, for Information Management System, is a database and transaction server.N/A

    Riak

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARiak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM IMSRiak
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    IBM IMSRiak
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IBM IMSRiak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM IMSRiak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    We have built a database of a network of bank branches with all the needs of security and recovery/restart. It requires knowledge of obsolete maintenance languages and perhaps it is too rigid in the schemes.
    Incentivized
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    Basho Technologies
    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.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Security
    • Reliability
    • Big volume of data and good performance
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    Basho Technologies
    • 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.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Certainly, not being a DB relational penalizes its use
    • It should be more flexible
    • Open up to more recent languages
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    Basho Technologies
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
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    Basho Technologies
    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.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
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    Basho Technologies
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Essentially, for a question of reliability and scalability, the performance has always been of an enterprise level. The utilities are efficient and effective.
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    Basho Technologies
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • The investment made about 20 years ago that has been fully repaid
    • Reliability and security of investments
    • Unfortunately, it is quite outdated and therefore maintenance costs are higher because the skills are not always available.
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    Basho Technologies
    • 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.
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