Hello, Bitcask
April 27, 2010 because you needed another local key/value store One aspect of Riak that has helped development to move so quickly is pluggable per-node storage. By allowing nearly anything k/v-shaped...
View ArticleIntroducing the Riak Fast Track
May 04, 2010 Our Challenge There is nothing easy about making software simple to learn and understand. Every potential user has different nuances to their learning styles, and this makes for a hard...
View ArticleNoSQL and Endless Variety
May 05, 2010 A Conversation about Variety and Making Choices Benjamin Black stopped by the Basho offices recently and we had the chance to sit him down and discuss the collection of things that is...
View ArticlePlanning for Eventual Consistency
May 14, 2010 You may remember that last week, we recorded a podcast with Benjamin Black all about the immense variety of databases in the NoSQL space and what your criteria should be when choosing one....
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Webmachine in the Data Center
May 19, 2010 While Riak is Basho's most-heavily developed and widely distributed piece of open source software, we also hack on a whole host of other projects that are components of Riak but also have...
View ArticleRiak Search
May 21, 2010 This post is going to start by explaining how in-the-trenches experience with key/value stores, like Riak, led to the creation of Riak Search. Then it will tell you why you care, what...
View ArticleFree Webinar - Load-Testing Riak - June 3rd @ 2PM Eastern
May 26, 2010 We frequently receive questions about how Riak will behave in specific production scenarios, and how to tune it for those workloads. The answer is, generally, that it depends — the only...
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Riak Fast Track Revisited
May 27, 2010 You may remember a few weeks back we posted a blog about a new feature on the Riak Wiki called The Riak Fast Track. To refresh your memory, "The Fast Track is a 30-45 minute interactive...
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Berlin Buzzwords Day One Recap
June 08, 2010 This was originally posted by @rklophaus on his blog, rklophaus.com BerlinBuzzwords has a stellar venue and talks describing cutting edge developments on all things search, scalability,...
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Berlin Buzzwords Day Two Recap
June 09, 2010 This was originally posted by @rklophaus on his blog, rklophaus.com. Please email him with any corrections. Day 2 - June 8, 2010 (If you are looking for a Day 1 Recap, click here) Keynote...
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Erlang Factory London Recap
June 14, 2010 This was originally posted by @rklophaus on his blog, rklophaus.com. Please email him with any corrections. Erlang Factory London gathers Erlang pioneers from across the world—Berlin to...
View ArticleSWAG Alert -- Riak at Velocity
June 6, 2010 Velocity, the "Web Performance and Operations Conference" put on by O'Reilly, kicks off tomorrow and we here at Basho are excited. Why? Because Benjamin Black, acknowledged distributed...
View ArticleFree Webinar - Schema Design for Riak - July 8th at 2PM Eastern
June 30, 2010 Moving applications to Riak involves a number of changes from the status quo of RDBMS systems, one of which is taking greater control over your schema design. You'll have questions like:...
View ArticleWebinar Recap - Schema Design for Riak
July 7, 2010 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...
View ArticleFree Webinar - MapReduce Querying in Riak - July 22 at 2PM Eastern
July 15, 2010 Map-Reduce is a flexible and powerful alternative to declarative query languages like SQL that takes advantage of Riak's distributed architecture. However, it requires a whole new way of...
View ArticleBasho Headed to OSCON and Community Leadership Summit
July 16, 2010 Basho is sending some team members to Portland to take part in the two great events happening up there over the next week. Antony Falco, Mark Phillips (that's me) and John Hornbeck will...
View ArticleBasho West and the Riak One Year Anniversary
July 19, 2010 Basho is growing. Fast. We are adding customers and users at a frenetic pace, and with this growth comes expansion in both team and locations. As some of you may have noticed, the Basho...
View ArticleRiak in Production - Lexer
July 21, 2010 A few members of the Basho Team are at OSCON all week. We are here to take part in the amazing talks and tutorials, but also to talk to Riak users and community members. Yesterday I had...
View ArticleWebinar Recap - MapReduce Querying in Riak
July 7, 2010 Thank you to all who attended the webinar last Thursday, it was a great turnout with awesome engagement. Like before, we're recapping the questions below for everyone's sake (in no...
View ArticleConsistent Smashing
July 28, 2010 Sometimes you need more than words to illustrate a point. Here is Basho's humble attempt to clarify the difference between "Dynamo-Style" systems (like Riak) that use consistent hashing...
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