We are pleased today to announce with Mesosphere, the launch of DC/OS 1.9 and a major upgrade of the integration…
Technical Blog
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…