Welcome to the Riak Wiki
Welcome to the Riak Wiki
Riak is a Dynamo-inspired database that is being used in production by companies like Mozilla and Comcast. Riak scales predictably and easily and simplifies development by giving users the ability to quickly prototype, test, and deploy their applications.
A truly fault-tolerant system, Riak has no single point of failure. No machines are special or central in Riak, so developers and operations professionals can decide exactly how fault-tolerant they want and need their applications to be.
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The Riak Fast Track
The Riak Fast Track is a 45 minute interactive tutorial that introduces the basics of using and understanding Riak, from building a three node cluster up through MapReduce. This is the quickest way to get a handle on what Riak is all about.
Introductory Reading and Resources
- Take a high level tour of Riak
- This extensive list of Recommended Resources includes everything from slide decks to videos to sample apps
Client Code
Looking for a specific Riak Driver? Basho list of supported libraries includes Erlang, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby. There's also a ton of community contributed code, including fully-featured Node.js and Perl drivers, and various monitoring tools.
Who is Using Riak
Take a look at a list of companies, organizations and projects who are using Riak right now.
