When Riak’s engineering team released Riak TS 1.0 back in December 2015 one of the features that I found most…
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The Quest for Hidden Treasure: An Apache Spark Connector for the Riak NoSQL database
This article introduces Riak Spark Connector, an open source library which bridges the gap between Apache Spark and Riak NoSQL database. It brings the full power of Apache Spark to the operational data, managed in Riak distributed clusters.
Apache Spark together with Riak TS – A Powerful Solution for Event Processing
I spend a lot of time as a solution architect at Riak talking through use cases and best practices around…
How we built an Electric Racing Demo showcasing the Potential of Riak TS
Here at Riak we recently open source Riak TS, a new time series database built on the same foundation as…
Ingesting MQTT Traffic into Riak TS via RabbitMQ and StreamSets
This post was originally published by StreamSets here and is republished with permission. Thanks to Pat Patterson at StreamSets for building…
What does Time Series mean to me?
I’m from New York City. All the things to see, places to be, a food for every taste, people everywhere… and traffic. Wall to wall traffic. New York is renowned for many things and at the top of that list would be parking lots. Huge parking lots. The best parking lots. I’m looking at you Midtown. West Side Highway. FDR. BQE.
Time Series, the new shiny?
If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been studying penguins at McMurdo these last few seasons you may have missed…
Spotlight: When “Zero Data Loss” is Imperative – Guess What’s the Most Important Technology in the Sirv Stack?
At Riak, we love hearing about exciting uses of our technology. Today, we look at how one company used Riak®…
Predicting Los Angeles Dodger Baseball Games Using Riak TS
Riak TS 1.3 launch is just days away and since 1.3 will include the first Open Source release we thought we’d set the stage, give you access to some fun time series data and guide you through an example of a practical Riak TS use case. This demo shows how Riak TS can be used for analysis of historical time series data being generated by sensors to predict the occurrence of an event.
Booking.com: Part 3 of their Riak blog series now live
Booking.com manages billions of events every day. However, these events are schema-less and therefore a difficult task for standard analytics…
Riak is helping Booking.com push the boundaries of innovation: Part 2
Booking.com manages billions of events every day. However, these events are schema-less and therefore a difficult task for standard analytics…
Vector Clocks Revisited Part 2: Dotted Version Vectors
In my previous blog, I wrote about Vnode Version Vectors, and how they simplify client interaction with Riak while keeping…
Jose Faleiro speaking at RICON 2015 and will help Demystify Distributed Transactions…
RICON, being held next week in San Francisco, features a list of distinguished experts on the front lines of the evolving…
RICON Community Competition Starts Today!
RICON, the annual distributed systems conference, is next week! The TL;DR of this post is update or build a new…
Riak is helping Booking.com push the boundaries of innovation: find out how in their 4 part blog
Booking.com manages billions of events every day. However, these events are schema-less and therefore a difficult task for standard analytics…