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Riak

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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 …
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9 out of 10
December 11, 2015
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We are using Riak as a backend to our weekly build cycle that processes data for millions of industrial parts each week. The system that …
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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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Nicholas Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Used as a data store in multiple scenarios. Everything from individual pair values such as datetime against currency exchange value through to large scale storage for videos and images. This was implemented in multiple clusters and tried on hardware varying from Raspberry Pi through to full rack mount servers. We also contributed towards the open source codebase.
Adam Stern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Riak is used as the main database/K-V Store for the company's product, the Dittach Platform. It is used to store information on all the objects/documents we manage in our environment. We selected Riak because it is highly available, highly scalable, and has Apache SOLR built into the data store for fast searching and indexing.
Jared Holmberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I used Riak's ability to link objects in the database as a way to build up a hierarchical tree of documents representing student administrative and testing data as part of a project to integrate across dozens of systems in a large technology and education company. Riak was used as the basis for the data model used in the operational data store.
December 11, 2015

My Riak Review

Jeff Peck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Riak as a backend to our weekly build cycle that processes data for millions of industrial parts each week. The system that we actually feed to is not always 100% reliable, but we simultaneous feed metadata about each item to Riak to keep as a reliable picture of what our front-end *should* look like. This is also useful for purging old data. We built this system several years ago and have been using it consistently and reliably.
Gerald Chenvert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use Riak as a datacenter/cloud replicating noSQL database. It is being used by various teams in our organization to write data which is then replicated to the cloud for cloud based service lookups. Riak allows us to provide data to the cloud in a secure manner via the "hub and spoke" replication model. Riak has proved instrumental in allowing us to move applications from a datacenter, to the cloud.
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