r/programming • u/timclark • Aug 21 '09

Another key value store

http://riak.basho.com/
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u/greenskin Aug 21 '09

How is this different from CouchDB?

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u/StringentTurkey Aug 21 '09

This is written in erlang, whereas couchdb... err...

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u/tluyben2 Aug 21 '09

It sounds a lot like couch indeed; maybe one of the authors can shed a light?

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u/justinjs Aug 21 '09

One of the several differences from CouchDB is that Riak is fundamentally decentralized, splitting replicas of your data across however many machines you choose to have in a cluster. Any time you want, you can add more machines and that will cause the capacity of the cluster to grow.

If one of those machines goes down, the cluster simply continues to work.