Riak Technologies today announced the immediate availability of the second edition of Riak Handbook.
CAMBRIDGE, MA – June 1, 2012 – Riak Technologies today announced the immediate availability of the second edition of Riak Handbook. The significantly updated Riak Handbook includes more than 43 pages of new content covering many of the latest feature enhancements to Riak, Riak’s industry-leading, open-source, distributed database. Riak Handbook is authored by former Riak developer and advocate, Mathias Meyer.
Riak Handbook is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to Riak. The initial release of Riak Handbook focused on the driving forces behind Riak, including Amazon Dynamo, eventual consistency and CAP Theorem. Through a collection of examples and code, Mathias’ Riak Handbook explores the mechanics of Riak, such as storing and retrieving data, indexing, searching and querying data, and sheds a light on Riak in production. The updated handbook expands on previously covered key concepts and introduces new capabilities, including the following:
- An overview of Riak Control, a new Web-based operations management tool
- Full coverage on pre- and post-commit hooks, including JavaScript and Erlang examples
- An entirely new section on deploying Erlang code in a Riak cluster
- Additional details on secondary indexes
- Insight into load balancing Riak nodes
- An introduction to network node planning
- An introduction to Riak CS, includes Amazon S3 API compatibility
The updated Riak Handbook includes an entirely new section dedicated to popular use cases and is full of examples and code from real-time usage scenarios.
Mathias Meyer is an experienced software developer, consultant and coach from Berlin, Germany. He has worked with database technology leaders such as Sybase and Oracle. He entered into the world of NoSQL in 2008 and joined Riak Technologies in 2010.
About Riak Technologies
Riak Technologies is the leader in highly-available, distributed database technologies used to power scalable, data-intensive Web, mobile, and e-commerce applications and large cloud computing platforms. Riak customers, including fast-growing Web businesses and large Fortune 500 enterprises, use Riak to implement content delivery platforms and global session stores, to aggregate large amounts of data for logging, search, and analytics, to manage, store and stream unstructured data, and to build scalable cloud computing platforms.
Riak is available open source for download at http://wiki.riak.com/Riak.html. Riak EnterpriseDS is available with advanced replication, services and 24/7 support. Riak CS enables mutli-tenant object storage with advanced reporting and an Amazon S3 compatible API. For more information visit www.riak.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/basho.
