Webinar Recap - Schema Design for Riak
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...
View ArticleA Few Noteworthy Contributions to Riak
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...
View ArticleRiak Wiki Now Running On Gollum
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...
View ArticleA Short Survey For Developers
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...
View ArticleRiak 0.14 Released
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...
View ArticleA Deeper Look At Riak's MapReduce Enhancements
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...
View ArticleBaseball Batting Average, Using Riak Map/Reduce
A few days ago, I announced a tool that I assembled last weekend, called luwak_mr. That tool extends Riak's map/reduce functionality to “Luwak” files. But what does that mean? What can it do? Luwak is...
View ArticleFixing the Count
Many thanks to commenter Mike for taking up the challenge I offered in my last post. The flaw I was referring to was, indeed, the possibility that Luwak would split one of my records across two...
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Creating a Local Riak Cluster with Vagrant and Chef
The Riak Fast Track has been around for at least nine months now, and lots of developers have gotten to know Riak that way, building their own local clusters from the Riak source. But there’s always...
View ArticleData Durability Is Not An After-market Add-on; Announcing KillDashNine
We started Basho Technologies with an idea as simple and timeless as an honest day’s work: databases shouldn’t lose data. Sounds radical, we know, but some people think losing data is fine as long as...
View ArticleNoSQL East 2009 kicked off last night at Tap
October 29, 2009 NoSQL East 2009 kicked of last night at Tap, a great venue in midtown Atlanta. We met some of the organizers -- Chris Williams and Brad Anderson -- who in addition to trying to stoke...
View ArticleIf You Happen to Find Yourself in Stockholm
November 11, 2009 Then make sure to check out Basho's very own Rusty Klophaus, who will be opening up the Erlang User Conference, slated to kick-off November 12th. Rusty will be giving a brief overview...
View ArticleSoap people have to grow up quick:Two Weeks in the Life of a NoSQL Company
November 11, 2010 Things are moving incredibly fast in the NoSQL space. I am used to internet-fast -- helping bring on 300 customers in a year at Akamai; going from adult bulletin boards and leased...
View ArticleJustin Sheehy's Presentation at NoSQL East Now Available for Viewing
November 18, 2009 Thanks to the hardwork of Brad Anderson and the rest of the NoSQL East organizers, Justin Sheehy's presentation is now online and ready to be consumed. You can check it out here:...
View ArticleNoSQL No Niche
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...
View ArticleDon't look to Big Money to fund innovation. Innovators must look to each other.
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....
View ArticleBasho Podcast Number 1 - Justin Sheehy and Tony Falco on Scaling out with...
December 11, 2009 Just out: Basho’s first podcast discussing Riak. Justin Sheehy and Tony Falco revisit the definition of scalability Justin first discussed at NoSQL East 2009, discuss EC2, Riak, and...
View ArticleCollecta Chooses Riak Search
December 15, 2009 Another big announcement for the team here at Basho: Collecta , which makes a truly cool real-time streaming search engine, has chosen to use Riak Search. They are longtime Webmachine...
View ArticleGreat Customers Make Great Products
December 15, 2009 At Basho, we're a very lucky bunch of people. The first paying customer for the Enterprise edition of Riak was Mochi Media. They first rolled it out on a low-profile system. I won't...
View ArticleBasho Screencast - Dave Smith Introduces Riak in an Embedded Node
December 17, 2009 The team here at Basho has been working hard this past week to take Riak to the next level when it comes to usability in a production environment. The fruits of our labor are...
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