Riak Overview

Riak is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed database. Different than traditional relational databases and other “NoSQL” non-relational databases — Riak offers a number of unique benefits to users:

  • Riak is built to operate in highly distributed environments, such as the cloud.
  • Riak is master-less; it has no single point of failure.
  • Riak is highly fault-tolerant due to its distributed nature. This means you can lose access to many Riak nodes, but never lose data.
  • Riak makes data highly available for use in read and write-intensive web applications.
  • Riak scales simply and intelligently, simply add a node to a cluster, with no downtime.
  • Riak is incredibly stable; many see Riak as the “building blocks” of a cloud data infrastructure.
  • Riak’s elegantly simple design makes for a lower cost of operations.
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Software Riak Riak Enterprise Riak CS
Multi-node Clustering Yes Yes *
Multi-Tenancy     Yes
MapReduce Processing Yes Yes *
Integrated Full-Text Search Yes Yes *
Secondary Indexing Yes Yes *
Masterless Multi-Site Replication   Yes  
SNMP Monitoring Agent and Support   Yes *
Graphical Operations Dashboard Yes Yes  
Diagnostic Tools Yes Yes  
JMX Integration   Yes *
S3-API Compatibility     Yes
Per Tenant Usage, Billing, & Metering Support     Yes
Large Object Support     Yes
Consulting and Service Riak Riak Enterprise Riak CS
Riak Development Community Yes Yes Yes
Basho Developer Support   Yes Yes
24×7 Customer Support Desk   Yes Yes
Implementation Consulting   Yes Yes
Architecture Consulting   Yes Yes
Roadmap Input   Yes Yes
Licensing Open Source Subscription or Perpetual Subscription or Perpetual


* Inclusive of RiakEDS which exposes this feature.

Ideal For

  • Enterprises
  • Telcos
  • Hosting Providers
  • IaaS Companies

Use Cases

  • Public cloud products & services
  • Private cloud products & services
  • Internal cloud storage for enterprise IT
  • Large scale systems