In Riak 1.2, we made a host of improvements to eleveldb, Riak’s implementation of Google’s levelDB backend. In this blog we summarize these changes and provide benchmark data illustrating performance improvements.
Technical Blog
Rails Rumble with Riak and Ripple – Three Developers and a Lot of Rs
Dmitri Zagidulin, Program Manager at Riak, relates his adventures at Rails Rumble 2012 using Riak and Ripple to build a web app in 48 hours.
Official Riak Package Repositories Now Available
We are pleased to announce that Riak package repositories for Riak downloads are now available! Hopefully this makes installing Riak even easier. Here’s the summary of what’s currently available
Slides – Searching and Accessing Data in Riak
Slides and Video (coming soon) from a live webcast covering options for searching and accessing data in Riak, including Riak Search, secondary indexes, Map Reduce and core key/value functions.
Rolling with Eventual Consistency
Using the example of averaging many values, we explore some concerns that we need to address in a distributed, eventually consistent system like Riak.
Cluster Management Improvements in Riak 1.2
September 13, 2012 Last month we released Riak 1.2 , with a number of improvements in Riak stats, the protobufs…
In-Depth on Riak 1.2 [video]
Andy Gross and Shanley Kane go in-depth on Riak 1.2
Riak Cloud Storage – New Features and Product Update
Earlier this year we launched Riak Cloud Storage (CS) – simple, available could storage built on Riak. This blog outlines its first major update, which includes more options for user admin, auth and object metadata, improved stats, and more.
Choosing the Right Tool
August 10, 2012 We have a poorly defined term in our industry: “NoSQL.” [Does your toaster run SQL? No? Then…
Multi-Data Center Replication in Riak Enterprise 1.2
August 8, 2012 The Replication team @Riak has been hard at work implementing new features for Multi-Data Center (MDC) Replication….
Protobuffs in Riak 1.2
July 18, 2012 You might remember that back in April, we sent around a survey to get input about what features developers…
Neil Conway on Bloom and CALM
July 16, 2012 At long last, here’s the second of two talks from last month’s RiakChats meetup. (The first talk,…
Escape Hatches In Go
July 10, 2012 I’m happy to report that the videos from the latest RiakChats are online and ready for consumption. The…
Riak Community Release Notes v0.4
July 6, 2012 I’m excited to announce that v0.4 of the Riak Community Release Notes are official, covering what happened…
Folsom-backed Stats In Riak 1.2
July 2, 2012 Part of the Riak 1.2 release is a change to how we gather metrics. In the past…