Riak 1.2 Officially Released

Basho continues to rapidly add features and improve Riak. I think they're far ahead of the competition. Frankly, I think Riak is the undiscovered gem in the NoSQL space.

jpflores4• 14 years ago

we're working on the 'undiscovered' part. :-)

don_draper2• 14 years ago

How about a getting started page that is as easy as this one:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-d...

Ixiaus4• 14 years ago

Yay for FreeBSD support! I didn't like hacking on it to get it to install on FreeBSD... Also yay for LevelDB improvements :)

pharkmillups2• 14 years ago

Somewhat of a shameless plug here: Basho is having conference in October called RICON. It's in San Francisco, and it's two days dedicated to Riak, developers, and distributed systems in production. And there will be plenty of chatter about Riak 1.2 (and 1.3).

http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/

jtuple• 14 years ago

One thing that isn't highlighted much in the release notes or blog post (but will be once I get around to updating the docs) is the addition of the new 'replace' and 'force-replace' cluster commands in Riak 1.2.

Have a cluster A/B/C and want to replace A with an upgraded machine Z? Bring up Z and then: cluster join Z; cluster replace A Z; cluster plan/commit.

Have cluster A/B/C and C irreversibly crashes? Bring up node D from backups of C, and then: cluster join D, cluster force-replace C D, cluster plan/commit. Passive read-repair (or the newer repair logic) will resolve replicas missing from the backup.

kondro2• 14 years ago

Any chance on getting indicative pricing for Enterprise.

I generally hate hidden pricing and using products with it because it generally means the company attempts to charge whatever it can get away with and is afraid of having their clients find or what others are paying.

theatrus22• 14 years ago

Honestly, this is a big turn off if you compare with Cassandra. While Cassandra has commercial options, all the functionality is at least built in.

Ixiaus4• 14 years ago

The only thing you don't get is multi-site replication. They gotta pay the bills; cassandra gets its love from Facebook...

tptacek2• 14 years ago

What is the thing you can build with Riak Enterprise that you don't think you can build with just-plain-Riak?

stock_toaster3• 14 years ago

WAN replication and their apparently awesome support are the differentiating factors I usually hear about.

kondro2• 14 years ago

Primarily masterless, multi-site (WAN) replication. This is probably the only reason why I would choose Riak over some of their competition.

http://wiki.basho.com/Multi-Data-Center-Replication-Concepts...

xb95• 14 years ago

The company I work for, Bump (http://bu.mp/company/), pays for Riak Enterprise. I am not going to disclose our particular pricing, though, except to say that this isn't a commodity. Every deal is going to be different, cover different things, so it's hard to give guidance on the subject.

What I will say, however, is that it has been worth it. Whenever we need Basho's support, they are on the line and ready to help us. Their staff has been excellent to us and I couldn't be happier about our relationship with those folks.

Whether it is sitting down and talking to them about some what-if scenarios, discussing optimizing our usage, or even reviewing configuration files before we spin up a new cluster -- they've been on the ball. We recently renewed our contract for another year and I can't imagine us not doing that as long as we still use Riak.

continuations• 14 years ago

How is Riak different from Cassandra or HBase?

What might be the reasons I'd want to use Riak instead of open source alternatives?

Riak 1.2 Officially Released

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