Riak 2.0 Now Available for Technical Preview

November 13, 2013

Basho has released a technical preview of Riak 2.0, the company announced at the Ricon West developers’ conference last month in San Francisco. Several key improvements have been made to the open source distributed database: additional Riak data types; the option for strong consistency; full-text search integration with Apache Solr; more flexibility in security administration; simplified configuration management; and the option of storing fewer replicas across multiple data centers. See the article for details on each of these changes.

The press release emphasizes that this is not the final release of Riak 2.0, and that Basho would like users’ feedback:

“Please note that this is only a Technical Preview of Riak 2.0. This means that it has been tested extensively, as we do with all of our release candidates, but there is still work to be completed to ensure its production hardened. Between now and the final release, we will be continuing manual and automated testing, creating detailed use cases, gathering performance statistics, and updating the documentation for both usage and deployment. As we are finalizing Riak 2.0, we welcome your feedback for our Technical Preview. We are always available to discuss via the Riak Users mailing list, IRC (#riak on freenode), or contact us.”

Riak is developed by Basho Technologies, who naturally offers a commercial edition of the NOSQL database. They also offer Riak CS, a cloud-based object storage system deployable on top of Riak. The company positions their enterprise version as the solution for companies whose needs go beyond the traditional database or who have wrestled with scalability constraints within relational databases. Founded in 2008, Basho is headquartered in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in London, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.

Cynthia Murrell, November 13, 2013

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

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