July 7, 2010 Thank you to all who attended the webinar yesterday. The turnout was great, and the questions at the…
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Riak Fast Track Revisited
May 27, 2010 You may remember a few weeks back we posted a blog about a new feature on the…
Riak Search
May 21, 2010 This post is going to start by explaining how in-the-trenches experience with key/value stores, like Riak, led to the creation of…
Webmachine in the Data Center
May 19, 2010 While Riak is Riak’s most-heavily developed and widely distributed piece of open source software, we also hack…
Planning for Eventual Consistency
May 14, 2010 You may remember that last week, we recorded a podcast with Benjamin Black all about the immense…
NoSQL and Endless Variety
A Conversation about Variety and Making Choices Benjamin Black stopped by the Riak offices recently and we had the chance to…
Practical Map-Reduce – Forwarding and Collecting
This post is an example of how you can solve a practical querying problem in Riak with Map-Reduce. The Problem…
Why Vector Clocks Are Hard
April 5, 2010 A couple of months ago, Bryan wrote about vector clocks on this blog. The title of the post was…
Schema Design in Riak – Relationships
March 25, 2010 In the previous installment we looked at how your reasons for picking Riak affect how your schema…
Riak in Production – A Distributed Event Registration System Written in Erlang
March 20, 2010 Riak, at its core, is an open source project. So, we love the opportunity to hear from…
Schema Design in Riak – Introduction
March 19, 2010 One of the challenges of switching from a relational database (Oracle, MySQL, etc.) to a “NoSQL” database…
Link Walking By Example
February 24, 2010 Riak has a notion of “links” as part of the metadata of its objects. We talk about…
Using Innostore with Riak
February 22, 2010 Innostore is an Erlang application that provides an API for storing and retrieving key/value data using the…
The Release Riak 0.8 and JavaScript Map/Reduce
February 3, 2010 We are happy to announce the release of Riak 0.8 available for download immediately. Riak 0.8 features a…
Why Vector Clocks are Easy
January 29, 2010 Vector clocks are confusing the first time you’re introduced to them. It’s not clear what their benefits are, nor…