We officially released Riak 0.14 yesterday. Some of the biggest enhancements were in and around Riak’s MapReduce functionality. Here’s a more in-depth look at what you can look forward to in 0.14 if you’re into Mapping and Reducing.

Happy New Year, Happy Wednesday, and Happy Riak 0.14! It’s a new year and it’s time for a new version of Riak. We’ve been putting the final touches on the latest release candidate for the last few days and we are now ready to call Riak 0.14, a.k.a “Dakota,” official.

The Dev team here at Basho is in the process of prioritizing some code and new feature development. So, we wanted your opinion on it. We threw together a short, simple survey to get some feedback on where we should be spending our time.

Those of you who are familiar with the Riak Wiki may have been surprised by what you saw at wiki.basho.com starting yesterday. That’s because we just gave it a facelift. More importantly, the team at Basho has spent a fair amount of time converting the Riak Wiki to use Gollum.

The community contributions to Riak have been increasing at an exciting rate. The pull requests are starting to roll in, and I wanted to take a moment and recognize several of the many contributions we’ve received over the past months and weeks (and days).

We will be at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference on April 10-11.

If you’re lucky enough to be going to PyConZA (it’s sold out), be on the lookout for our Riak Community Ambassadors.

December 9, 2010 One thing that the last year has taught us is that innovation will not be constrained by an economy in the doldrums. People have big ideas and big ideas play, no matter the economy. Ever since we started talking to select companies about Riak in early 2009, we have been overwhelmed by the [...]

Thank you to all who attended the webinar yesterday. The turnout was great, and the questions at the end were also very thoughtful. Since I didn’t get to answer very many, I’ve reviewed all of the questions below, in no particular order.

December 2, 2010 In the last two weeks, Basho has been fortunate to sign up some pretty cool clients. Considering we are a young company, that a database is among the stickiest pieces of software and therefore decisions to deploy something new are undertaken with caution, and that we have spent approximately $7,000 on marketing [...]