Episode Details

Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub.

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Featuring:

• John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010.
• Are you web scale?
• Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog
• Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak.
• Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups
• John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame
• Riak is now available as a binary download
• Bitcask, the new backend for Riak
• Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies
• Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak
• Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak
• Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook
• Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface
• Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple
• Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak
• Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop.
• Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special
• Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort
• Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc appro