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Spotlight: Riak for Retail, Advertising, Mobile, and Gaming

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March 25, 2013

We have a few new pages on our site to help you start building retail, advertising, mobile, or gaming apps and services on Riak. On each of these pages, you will find industry use cases for Riak, relevant case studies from companies already using it in production, and information on Riak’s key/value model and querying features. Here’s a quick overview:

Retail

Riak lets retailers provide always-on, highly scalable eCommerce and mobile services. Retail use cases for Riak include:

  • Shopping carts
  • Product catalogs
  • Mobile applications/sites

The retail page also looks at how Best Buy, ideeli, and Copious use Riak. For more details, visit the Retail Users Page.

Advertising

Advertisers need to serve data reliably and quickly. Common ways advertisers leverage Riak include:

  • Serving ad content
  • Session storage
  • Mobile experiences

OpenX and Velti are two examples of advertisers using Riak. For more details, visit the Advertising Users Page.

Mobile

Riak provides the scalable, small object storage required by mobile applications and platforms. Riak can be used for many different mobile needs, including:

  • User and session data storage
  • Text and multimedia storage
  • Social authentication

The mobile page also highlights case studies from popular applications Bump and Voxer. For more details, visit the Mobile Users Page.

Gaming

Gaming platforms and applications benefit from Riak’s scale-out, low-latency design, and flexible storage capabilities. Some common use cases include:

  • Player data
  • Session data
  • Social information
  • Gaming assets

This page looks at some gaming companies using Riak, including Kiip, Mochi Media, and Hibernum, and why they chose Riak. For more details, visit the Gaming Users Page.

You can find user stories from other industries here. And make sure to sign up for our Introduction to Riak webcast, tomorrow at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.

Basho

Mobile on Riak: Overview and User Stories

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February 26, 2013

Mobile platforms and applications pose unique infrastructure challenges for today’s companies. These applications require low-latency, always-available small object storage that can scale to millions or more users, and support highly concurrent access and traffic spikes.

Riak provides a number of benefits for these platforms, including:

  • Low-Latency Data Storage: Riak is designed to serve predictable, low-latency requests to provide a fast, available experience to all users.
  • Straightforward Data Model: Riak uses a simple key-value data model, which is ideal for storing and serving mobile content, user information, events, and session data. Riak is content agnostic, so there are no restrictions on content type.
  • Accommodates Peak Loads Gracefully: To handle increasing user data and accommodate peak loads during events, Riak makes it easy to add additional capacity and scale out quickly. Riak automatically rebalances data when new nodes are added, while its consistent hashing methodology prevents hot spots in the database.
  • Multi-Datacenter Replication: Riak Enterprise’s multi-datacenter replication allows mobile platforms to serve low-latency content to users all over world by maintaining a global data footprint.
  • For a full overview, download our new whitepaper on building mobile services with Riak

User Stories

Bump is a popular mobile app that makes it easy for users to share their contact information, photos, and other objects by simply “bumping” their smartphones. They use Riak to store user data and currently run 25 nodes of Riak storing about 3TB of data.

For more details about how Bump uses Riak and how they designed their application, check out Bump’s presentation at RICON2012, Basho’s 2012 developer conference. You can also read the complete case study for more information about why Bump chose Riak.

Voxer is a popular Walkie Talkie application for smartphones that allows users to send instant voice messages to one or more friends. They switched to Riak due to its fault-tolerance and ability to scale quickly and easily. They currently run more than 50 machines on Riak to support their huge growth and user base. For more details about how Voxer uses Riak, check out the complete case study and watch Matt Ranney’s talk at a Riak Meetup in San Francisco.

To learn more about how mobile platforms can use Riak for their data needs, check out the complete overview, “Mobile on Riak: A Technical Introduction.”

Basho

How Mobile App Bump Uses Riak for Data Storage

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February 13, 2013

Bump, one of the most popular mobile apps of all time, makes it easy for users to share their contact information, photos and other objects by simply “bumping” their smartphones. Bump uses Riak to store user data including events, communications sent and received, handset information and tokens needed to authenticate using social networks.

Bump chose Riak for its operational ease-of-use, ability to scale writes, and availability under failure conditions.

“It’s a relief that we don’t need to spend time thinking about whether or not Riak is working,” said Will Moss, Server Engineer at Bump. “It does what it’s supposed to do; nodes can go down but Riak will still work. It’s great to be able to deal with node failures the next day instead of at 3am.”

Recently, Bump expanded their mobile app offerings and launched Flock, a photo-sharing app. For more information on how Flock uses Riak, including their data model, watch Bump’s presentation at RICON2012, Basho’s 2012 developer conference. Bump is now running 25 nodes on Riak and storing around 3TB of data.

Building A Transaction Logs-based Protocol On Riak – Will Moss and Tim Douglas, RICON2012 from Basho Technologies on Vimeo.

You can also check out the complete case study.

Additionally, check out Bump’s website for more details about Bump and Flock and links to download the apps for iOS and Android. To get started with Riak, check out our overview.

Basho