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    Riak

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARiak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.N/A

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
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    RiakScality ARTESCA
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    RiakScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
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    Usability
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    8.9
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    User Testimonials
    RiakScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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    Pros
    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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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    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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    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Usability
    Basho Technologies
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    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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