May 8, 2013 This is part 2 of our 4-part series illustrating how Riak’s configuration options impact its core behaviors. Part 1 covered background material and conflict resolution. In this post I’ll talk about reads and writes. N, R, W, and hangers-on All documentation lies by omission: there’s always something left out, deliberately or no. [...]

May 7, 2013 This is part 1 of a 4-part series on subtleties and tradeoffs to consider when configuring write and read parameters for a Riak cluster. The full implications of the configuration options discussed here are rarely obvious and often are revealed only under a production load, hence this series. More generally, I hope [...]

May 6, 2013 At the Game Developers Conference this March, Basho Chief Architect Andy Gross and Rovio Entertainment Product Manager Timo Herttua co-presented a session on Riak at Rovio. Angry Birds developer Rovio is using Riak as the database supporting its new mobile gaming platform, including features such as payments, game state storage, and push [...]

May 6, 2013 The free Riak AMI available on the AWS Marketplace has been updated to the latest version, Riak 1.3.1. In Riak 1.3, we introduced: Active Anti-Entropy Updates to Riak Control Expanded IPv6 support Improved MapReduce Simplified Log Management Riak 1.3.1 includes all these features with some additional changes enumerated in the release notes. [...]

May 3, 2013 We recently tagged version 1.10.0 of Webmachine and, in addition to a slew of bug fixes, it includes some notable new features. Those features are the subject of today’s post; but first a bit of background on the driving force for these additions. The development of Riak CS is great for dogfooding [...]

May 1, 2013 On May 15 & 16, immediately following Basho’s Distributed Systems conference RICON East, Basho will be hosting Riak Training in New York. The cost to attend is $400. In addition, a 50% discount is extended to those holding a conference pass to RICON East. If you’re interested in attending, tickets can be [...]

This post answers commonly asked questions about Riak CS, Basho’s open source, distributed storage product. It looks at the relationship between Riak and Riak CS, multi-tenancy, use cases, multi-datacenter replication and plans for integration with popular open source compute solutions.

April 30, 2013 Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Riak and Riak Enterprise on SoftLayer’s global cloud platform. Users can now easily configure and deploy Riak environments on the SoftLayer platform with a flexible, pay-as-you-go service model. The solution makes it easy for organizations to quickly deploy scalable production-grade Riak systems on-demand. [...]

Qeep is a global social network, with more than 19 million registered users sending nearly five million messages each day. Qeep allows you to play games, chat with friends, send pictures, and more. They currently use Riak to store all user chat messages.

Video presentation from Will Gage at Shopzilla, who discusses how they built various user-facing services on Riak, why it was the right tool for the job, and when you might want to use it in production. In addition to offering details on data modeling for their specific use cases, he also talks about service latencies for their production applications and how the Riak community played an important role in their decision.