Collecta Collaborates with Riak to develop Riak’s Riak Search Product
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Dec. 15 – Riak Technologies, Inc., a provider of commercial and open source distributed, highly scalable data store software and analytics tools, today announced Collecta has selected Riak’s Riak Search as it continues to build its real-time search engine for the entire Web, not just social media.
Collecta, which already uses Webmachine, Riak’s open-source RESTful application server, provided the initial requirements and critical input into the design and validation of Riak’s new search and indexing features. Currently in testing with Collecta, as well as a handful of other clients, Riak will make Riak Search widely available January 15th.
“Collecta really provided the spark of motivation for us. Once they determined Riak EnterpriseDS met their stability and performance needs for document storage and retrieval, we collaborated with them to implement a search and indexing system for Riak,” said Earl Galleher, Chairman and CEO of Riak Technologies, Inc.
“Traditional indexing systems are not designed for the needs of real-time search. Using Riak, we will get much better performance and save money on infrastructure.” said Jack Moffitt, Collecta’s CTO. “We already knew Riak made great software because we used and trusted Webmachine, but Riak Search takes it to the next level.”
In reference to the Search features Mr. Moffitt said, “After an initial exchange of ideas about how to build a better indexing system on distributed databases like Riak, the Riak team went off and built a prototype. The results were so promising that we knew the combination of Collecta’s domain expertise and Riak’s data engine expertise will make for a perfect relationship.”
“Collecta immediately grasped how an indexing solution on a truly distributed, scalable data store would change the game for search,” said Justin Sheehy, Riak’s CTO. “Riak allows users to add and remove capacity as traffic spikes and ebbs or data sets grow. With no special master nodes, distributed MapReduce, and other Riak technologies, Collecta can double their analytical power and storage by doubling the number of low-cost nodes in a cluster.”
About Riak Technologies
Riak Technologies, Inc., founded in January 2008 by a core group of software architects, engineers and executive leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Riak produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak’s high availability data store means that applications built using Riak remain both read and write available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented performance and availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
About Collecta
Collecta represents a new way to experience search, in real time. Collecta is the Web’s most powerful streaming real-time search engine, posting matching stories, blogs, photos, and comments as they happen. By aggregating content in real time, Collecta offers a new and more comprehensive view of what’s going on in the world right now. For more information, visit http://Collecta.com.