We just added Kevin Burns as a committer to the Riak-supported Riak PHP Client. Kevin has been hard at work over the past few weeks adding some great functionality to the PHP client…
Technical Blog
Data Durability Is Not An After-market Add-on; Announcing KillDashNine
We started Riak Technologies with an idea as simple and timeless as an honest day’s work. Databases shouldn’t lose data. Sounds radical, we know, but some people think losing data is fine as long as they have cool coffee mugs. (By their own admission, these folks have built “databases” that run the risk of losing data if users issue a simple “kill -9” command.)
Creating a Local Riak Cluster with Vagrant and Chef
The Riak Fast Track has been around for at least nine months now, and lots of developers have gotten to know Riak that way, building their own local clusters from the Riak source. But there’s always been something that has bothered me about that process, namely, that the developer has to build Riak herself. Riak provides pre-built packages on downloads.riak.com for several Linux distributions, Solaris, and Mac OS/X, but these have the limitation of only letting you run one node on a machine.
Fixing the Count
Many thanks to commenter Mike for taking up the challenge I offered in my last post. The flaw I was referring to was, indeed, the possibility that Luwak would split one of my records across two blocks.
Baseball Batting Average, Using Riak Map/Reduce
A few days ago, I announced a tool that I assembled last weekend, called luwak_mr. That tool extends Riak’s map/reduce functionality to Luwak files.
Riak Wiki Now Running On Gollum
Those of you who are familiar with the Riak Wiki may have been surprised by what you saw at wiki.riak.com starting yesterday. That’s because we just gave it a facelift. More importantly, the team at Riak has spent a fair amount of time converting the Riak Wiki to use Gollum.
A Few Noteworthy Contributions to Riak
The community contributions to Riak have been increasing at an exciting rate. The pull requests are starting to roll in, and I wanted to take a moment and recognize several of the many contributions we’ve received over the past months and weeks (and days).
Introducing Riak Function Contrib
A short while ago I made it known on the Riak Mailing list that the Riak Dev team was working on getting “more resources out the door to help the community better use Riak.” Today we are pleased to announce that Riak Function Contrib, one of these resources, is now live and awaiting your usage and code contributions.
Two new Erlang/OTP applications added to Riak products – ‘riak_err’ and ‘cluster_info’
November 17, 2010 The next release of Riak will include two new Erlang/OTP applications: riak_err and cluster_info. The riak_err application will improve Riak’s…
Why I Am Excited About Riak Search
October 20, 2010 Last week Riak released Riak 0.13, including (among many other great improvements) the first public release of the much-anticipated Riak Search….
Links and Link Walking on the Riak Fast Track
September 3, 2010 Links and link walking are two very powerful concepts in Riak. If used appropriately within an application,…
Ripple 0.8 is Full of Good Stuff
August 31, 2010 This is a repost from the blog of Sean Cribbs, our Developer Advocate. It’s been a while…
Consistent Smashing
July 28, 2010 Sometimes you need more than words to illustrate a point. Here is Riak’s humble attempt to clarify…
Free Webinar – MapReduce Querying in Riak – July 22 at 2PM
July 15, 2010 Map-Reduce is a flexible and powerful alternative to declarative query languages like SQL that takes advantage of Riak’s…
Webinar Recap – MapReduce Querying in Riak
July 7, 2010 Thank you to all who attended the webinar last Thursday, it was a great turnout with awesome engagement….