Basho Releases Another Riak

August 16, 2013

Without further ado from Basho.com,“Basho Announces Availability Of Riak 1.4,” the popular NoSQL database. Technology news Web sites have been reeling about the new Riak upgrade and what it will offer its users. According to the article, version 1.4 offers more functionality, resolves issues, and adds functions as requested by its users. Also it gives a small taste of what to expect in version 2.0 that will be available for download later in 2013.

Here is what the upgrade features:

· Secondary Indexing Improvements: Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics

· Introducing Counters in Riak: Counters, Riak’s first distributed data type, provide automatic conflict resolution after a network partition

· Simplified Cluster Management With Riak Control: New capabilities in Riak’s GUI-based administration tool improve the cluster management page for preparing and applying changes to the cluster

· Reduced Object Storage Overhead: Values and associated metadata are stored and transmitted using a more compact format, reducing disk and network overhead

· Handoff Progress Reporting: Makes operating the cluster, identifying and troubleshooting issues, and monitoring the cluster simpler

· Improved Backpressure: Riak responds with an overload message if a vnode has too many messages in queue

Users will be happy with how Riak 1.4 will provide better functionality and management for clusters and datacenters. The updates and the 2.0 sample are enough to be excited about. There does not seem to be a thing NoSQL databases can do.

Whitney Grace, August 16, 2013

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Database, News

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