Riak
Distributed NoSQL key-value data store / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Riak?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Riak (pronounced "ree-ack" [2]) is a distributed NoSQL key-value data store that offers high availability, fault tolerance, operational simplicity, and scalability.[3] Riak moved to an entirely open-source project in August 2017, with many of the licensed Enterprise Edition features being incorporated.[4] Riak implements the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper[5] with heavy influence from the CAP theorem. Written in Erlang, Riak has fault-tolerant data replication and automatic data distribution across the cluster for performance and resilience.[6]
Developer(s) | Community Basho Technologies |
---|---|
Initial release | August 17, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-08-17) |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Erlang |
Operating system | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, Raspian |
Platform | IA-32, x86-64, AArch32 |
Type | NoSQL Database, data store, Cloud storage |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | riak |
Riak has a pluggable backend for its core storage, with the default storage backend being Bitcask.[7] LevelDB is also supported, with other options (such as the pure-Erlang Leveled) available depending on the version.
Riak was originally developed by engineers employed by Basho Technologies[8] and maintained by them until 2017 when the rights were sold to bet365[9][10] after Basho went into receivership.[11]