Riak vs. Cassandra – A Brief Comparison
There have been several previous blogs comparing Riak to Cassandra. But, in working with customers, we have found that some…
Riak Blog
The latest news and updates on the business front plus valuable tips, ideas and visions from the technical side. Riak, Riak and the NoSQL universe – all in one blog.
Business Blog
Riak Academy: New Year, New Content
Have you tried Riak Academy yet? If so, we have some great new content coming in 2017. If not, you’ll…
Roundtable With Riak, IBM, Raytheon Discusses Distributed Security for IoT – Part 3 of 3
Recently, Riak held a roundtable discussion in San Francisco with Riak’s CEO Adam Wray and some of our technology partners,…
IoT Roundtable: Riak, IBM, Raytheon Discuss Enabling Decisions Based on Factual Data – Part 2 of 3
Recently, Riak held a roundtable discussion in San Francisco with Riak’s CEO Adam Wray and some of our technology partners,…
IoT Roundtable Participants Riak, IBM and Raytheon Discuss IoT at the Edge – Part 1 of 3
Recently, Riak held a roundtable discussion in San Francisco with Riak’s CEO Adam Wray and some of our technology partners,…
QCon San Francisco – More Q than Con
At Riak we attend many conferences each year and it’s always a struggle to determine which shows make the cut….
Easy Time Series Analysis With NoSQL, Python, Pandas and Jupyter
I was really honored to speak at All Things Open this year. All Things Open is an absolutely amazing gathering…
Brussels is famous for beer, chocolate, mussels and now the Spark Summit 2016
Riak is excited to continue to be part of the premier big data event for the Apache® Spark™ Community by…
Exclusive interview with Dave McCrory our CTO
Don’t miss Jessica Twentyman’s exclusive interview with Dave McCrory where he discusses his unique concept of Data Gravity along with…
Welcome to the (IoT) Jungle
It’s no secret that we’re hot on IoT education here at Riak. We’re in the middle of our global IoT…
IoT Education Crusade Gathers Momentum
How ready are we to cope with the data that’s going to be generated by thousands, millions, possibly billions of…
Do you Give a Hoot About Your IoT IQ?
If you do then Riak has some great news! We’ve just launched our ”How IoT Time Series Ready Are You?”…
Pokémon Go… Stop… Go… You Need Riak!
The Pokémon Go app is incredibly successful. During its’ initial launch period it has been downloaded more times than either…
Riak Academy
I am happy to announce the official launch of Riak Academy. The Riak Academy provides a platform to educate users about our family of Riak products. This will help expose a broader audience of developers and operators to the powerful tools already being successfully deployed by world-class enterprises such as Best Buy, Bet365, Comcast, OpenX, and Uber, to name a few
Riak TS 1.3 is now Open Source! What is here and what is coming.
Today I am pleased to announce that Riak TS (Time Series) 1.3 is GA and now is also officially open…
Technical Blog
DC/OS 1.9 and Riak Mesos Framework
We are pleased today to announce with Mesosphere, the launch of DC/OS 1.9 and a major upgrade of the integration…
Traditional “Data Lake” Approach May Not Be A Good Choice for IoT Data
The momentum around Apache Spark continues. Spark Summit East was a big success and Riak’s own Pavel Hardak was among…
Riak Academy: Install, Code and Go
Are you new to NoSQL and want to find out more about Riak? Riak Academy may be the right place for…
Create Your First Riak TS Table
Customers like Intellicore are doing real-time analysis of IoT data using Riak TS. We want to make it easy for…
Open Source 101 – Building Community in Raleigh, NC
On Saturday, February 4th, I was fortunate enough to get the chance to spend my day attending and speaking at…
Booking.com: Using Riak as Events Storage – Part 4
Booking.com is the world’s leading online accommodation provider, operating across 220+ countries in 43 languages. They process billions of events…
Riak Security in Two Steps
In recent weeks, security compromises have been reported against MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB and Hadoop installations. These attacks are costly to…
Row Sorting Features in Riak TS v1.5
Riak TS v1.5 introduces two new features for retrieving rows in a sort order other than the order that LevelDB…
Kick off the New Year with Riak TS v1.5 and the Riak Spark Connector!
I am very excited to announce the release of Riak TS v1.5 and an update to the Riak Spark Connector. Since…
What in the HeLL is HyperLogLog?
The first time someone hears the term, HyperLogLog, a common response is to wonder what in the HeLL they are talking about. Personally, it sounds like something from a sci-fi movie; but it isn’t. I am going to introduce you to what HyperLogLog is, why you might want to use it, and how to use it with Riak KV.
Riak KV 2.2 Release Highlights
RiaK KV 2.2 continues Riak’s commitment to our customers and community to develop and deliver a highly resilient, high performance, key-value database.
Riak Big Sets, CRDTs, Adding SQL to NoSQL, Scaling your application, and more
The Riak team of distributed systems engineers continues to develop new Riak functionality to help companies build innovative applications. A…
Running Riak in Docker
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years (and believe me, given what’s happening in…
Microservices – Please, don’t
This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015….
Riak’s Spark-Riak Connector 1.6.0 Now Available
Riak’s Engineering team is proud to announce that version 1.6.0 of the Spark-Riak connector has been released. Over the past…