October 5, 2011 Our worlds have been forever changed by a man who refused to accept the status quo and believed that he could change the world. Not only did he change the world, he made others believe that they could do the same. Basho exists because of Steve Jobs ...
Riak is a NoSQL database implementing the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper. It has a pluggable backend for its core shard-partitioned storage, and it also has built-in MapReduce with native support for both JavaScript and Erlang.
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Remembering Steve Jobs
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Riak 1.0 Is Officially Released!
September 30, 2011 We are absolutely thrilled to report that as of today, Riak 1.0 is officially released and ready for your production applications! Riak 1.0 packages are available. Go download one. And then go read the release notes, because they are extensive and full of useful information ...
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Riak Pipe - the New MapReduce Power
September 19, 2011 A few months ago, I announced the opening of Riak Pipe, as well as two goals for the project. With the upcoming 1.0 release of Riak, we have achieved the first goal: new clusters will use Riak Pipe to power their MapReduce processing. Existing clusters will ...
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Secondary Indexes in Riak
September 14, 2011 Developers building an application on Riak typically have a love/hate relationship with Riak's simple key/value-based approach to storing data. It's great that anyone can grok the basics (3 simple operations, get/put/delete) quickly. It's convenient that you can store anything imaginable ...
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A Preview Of Cluster Membership In Riak 1.0
September 09, 2011 Being a distributed company, we make a lot of videos at Basho that are intended for internal consumption and used to educate everyone on new features, functionality, etc. Every once and a while someone makes a video that’s so valuable it’s hard not to share ...
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Follow Up To Riak and Node.js Webinar
Thanks to all who attended Wednesday's webinar on Riak (Search) and Node.js. If you couldn't make it you can find a screencast of the webinar below. You can also check out the slides directly. We hope we could give you a good idea what you can use ...
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Free Webinar - Riak with Node.js - March 15 @ 2PM Eastern
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, and many developers are starting to use node.js to power their server-side applications. Riak is a flexible, scalable database that has a JavaScript-friendly interface, including MapReduce in JavaScript and an awesome client library called riak-js. Put the two together and you ...
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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 been something that has bothered me about that process, namely, that the developer ...
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Introduction to Riak at Columbus Ruby Brigade
I’ll be speaking at the Columbus Ruby Brigade and giving an introduction to Riak on February 21 at 6:30PM. Riak: An Overview This presentation will lead you through an overview of Riak: a flexible, decentralized key-value store. Riak was designed to provide a friendly HTTP/JSON interface and ...