Riak - web-shaped data storage system

Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 8:06AM
HighScalability Team in Product, key-value store

Update: Short presentation NYC by Bryan Fink  demonstrating the riak web-shaped data storage engine

Riak is another new and interesting key-value store entrant. Some of the features it offers are:

• Document-oriented
• Scalable, decentralized key-value store
• Standard get, put, and delete operations. 
• Distributed, fault-tolerant storage solution.
• Configurable levels of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance
• Support for Erlang, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java, Python, HTTP
•  open source and NoSQL
• Pluggable backends
• Eventing system
• Monitoring
• Inter-cluster replication
• Links between records that can be traversed.
• Map/Reduce. Functions are executed on the data node. One interesting difference is that a list keys are required to specify which values are operated on as apposed to running calculations on all values. 

Related Articles

• Hacker News Thread. More juicy details on how Riak compares to Cassandra, mongodb, couchdb, etc. 

 

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