January 3, 2013 Most teams considering using Riak come from a relational database background. From our webcast on moving from relational to Riak, the below slide deck covers an overview of Riak, how the architecture differs from a relational approach, the advantages for scaling and development, and what’s different ...
Riak is a NoSQL database implementing the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper. It has a pluggable backend for its core shard-partitioned storage, and it also has built-in MapReduce with native support for both JavaScript and Erlang.
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Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi
November 1, 2012 Erlang was created to run on a variety of systems. Riak (written in Erlang) was created as a fault-tolerant distributed datastore, able to run on commodity hardware. Raspberry Pi is the culmination of these two points, brought to an absurd level: an embedded(ish), very inexpensive ($35 ...
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Riak Ambassadors For PyCon ZA
August 23, 2012 We’ve been excited about the South African tech scene for some time now. Ever since we had the opportunity to be a part of ScaleConf back in January, we’ve noticed a flurry of Riak activity in places like Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the growth ...
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Riak at Braintree
August 14, 2012 The inaugural Chicago Riak meetup happened last month, held at Braintree’s beautiful new offices in Downtown Chicago. In this video, Ben Mills, a developer at Braintree, discusses how the backend team found limitations with running Postgres in a distributed envoirnment and began experimenting with alternatives. After ...
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Choosing the Right Tool
August 10, 2012 We have a poorly defined term in our industry: “NoSQL.” [Does your toaster run SQL? No? Then you own a NoSQL toaster.] Be that as it may, Riak falls under the umbrella of software that carries this label. In our attempt to own the label, we reinterpret ...
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Multi-Data Center Replication in Riak Enterprise 1.2
August 08, 2012 The Replication team @Basho has been hard at work implementing new features for Multi-Data Center (MDC) Replication. These new features are the direct result of customer feedback, and are included in the release of Riak Enterprise 1.2. Riak Enterprise documentation is also now publicly available for ...
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Riak 1.2 Is Official!
August 07, 2012 Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Basho team announced Riak to the world. To say we’ve come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we ...
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Basho Comments on OpenStack Foundation Board Nomination
August 02, 2012 Recently, Shanley Kane, our director of product management, was nominated as an individual member candidate to the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. Following Shanley’s nomination, she decided to withdraw. There has been significant speculation regarding the events that led up to Shanley’s decision. Shanley is ...
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Analyzing Customer Support at Basho
July 30, 2012 Basho’s vision is to “be the best organization in the world.” This vision applies to every aspect of Basho as a company, including the quality of our products, our culture and of course our customer support. We strive to provide the best customer support possible. We ...
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Congratulations to Casey Rosenthal
July 26, 2012 We have some more good news to pass along: Casey Rosenthal, an engineer on Basho’s Professional Services team, has had a paper accepted for publication at the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. The paper is called “Personality Profiles for Generating Believable Bot Behaviors ...