March 25, 2013
We have a few new pages on our site to help you start building retail, advertising, mobile, or gaming apps and services on Riak. On each of these pages, you will find industry use cases for Riak, relevant case studies from companies already using it in production, and information on Riak’s key/value model and querying features. Here’s a quick overview:
Retail
Riak lets retailers provide always-on, highly scalable eCommerce and mobile services. Retail use cases for Riak include:
- Shopping carts
- Product catalogs
- Mobile applications/sites
The retail page also looks at how Best Buy, ideel, and Copious use Riak. For more details, visit the Retail Users Page.
Advertising
Advertisers need to serve data reliably and quickly. Common ways advertisers leverage Riak include:
- Serving ad content
- Session storage
- Mobile experiences
OpenX and Velti are two examples of advertisers using Riak. For more details, visit the Advertising Users Page.
Mobile
Riak provides the scalable, small object storage required by mobile applications and platforms. Riak can be used for many different mobile needs, including:
- User and session data storage
- Text and multimedia storage
- Social authentication
The mobile page also highlights case studies from popular applications Bump and Voxer. For more details, visit the Mobile Users Page.
Gaming
Gaming platforms and applications benefit from Riak’s scale-out, low-latency design, and flexible storage capabilities. Some common use cases include:
- Player data
- Session data
- Social information
- Gaming assets
This page looks at some gaming companies using Riak, including Kiip, Mochi Media, and Hibernum, and why they chose Riak. For more details, visit the Gaming Users Page.
You can find user stories from other industries here. And make sure to sign up for our Introduction to Riak webcast, tomorrow at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.
