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An example Riak-Hadoop map/reduce job

A whistle stop tour of a new integration between Riak and Hadoop MapReduce

November 17, 2011

The Riak 1.0 Release Party happened just over a week ago in San Francisco. It was an exceptional evening, and we were able to bring together the Basho Team and a huge number of local Riak community members to celebrate the release.

In addition to the excellent food, drinks, company, and c [...]

November 14, 2011

QCon is happening this week in San Francisco, with the tutorials taking place today and tomorrow, and the conference proper running Wednesday through Friday. Basho is huge supporter of what QCon is all about, and we came on board this year as a Platinum Sponsor because of it. In addition [...]

Our worlds have been forever changed by a man who refused to accept the status quo and believed that he could change the world. Not only did he change the world, he made others believe that they could do the same. ...

We are absolutely thrilled to report that as of today, Riak 1.0 is officially released and ready for your production applications! There is already a lot of literature out there on the release, so here are the essentials to get you started ...

A few months ago, I announced the opening of Riak Pipe, as well as two goals for the project. With the upcoming 1.0 release of Riak, we have achieved the first goal - new clusters will use Riak Pipe to power their MapReduce processing. Existing clusters will also be able to migrate to using Riak Pipe, with no changes needed from the client perspective ...

Rusty Klophaus introduces Riak 1.0's new Secondary Indexes feature.