Solving the Problem of Unstructured Data Using Distributed Systems
February 1st, 2015 If you missed last week’s webinar Preparing for the Deluge of Unstructured Data you can still watch it on-demand. Dorothy Pults and I discuss the news emanating from the 2015...
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Peter Alvaro – Outwards from the Middle of the Maze
Thousands have watched and enjoyed Peter Alvaro’s engaging and informative RICON 2014 Keynote presentation. Alvaro is a PhD candidate at the University of California Berkeley. His research interests...
View ArticleRiak Documentation – A Holiday Reading List
December 30, 2014 At Basho, we are proud of our documentation. All design, updates, and edits are done with our community top of mind and we encourage community participation. Given the pace at which...
View ArticleData Modeling with Riak
January 22, 2015 In speaking with Riak users, both open source and commercial, we are frequently told that Riak’s key/value model is more flexible and faster to develop against than a traditional...
View ArticleThe Requirement of High Availability
February 17, 2015 According to TechTarget, a common definition of “High Availability” is: “In information technology, high availability refers to a system or component that is continuously operational...
View ArticleFundamentals of NoSQL Security
February 23, 2015 Over the last week, for a variety of reasons, the topic of security in the NoSQL space has become a prominent news item. Chief among these reasons was the announcement of a popular...
View ArticleGaming and Betting Companies Find Success with Riak.
March 30, 2015 This is the first post in a series of blog posts, entitled Riak Customer Stories, where we will look at common use cases for Riak and their applicability in specific verticals. Our first...
View ArticleRiak 2.1 and Riak CS 2.0 – Increased Performance and Product Enhancements
April 8, 2015 At the beginning of 2015, Adam Wray, our CEO and president, made a bold statement in a post entitled Basho is Back! Record Year and a Strong Start to 2015 he claimed: At Basho we are...
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Cloud is Mainstream but Everything has Changed
For years, the press and industry analysts have been telling us that cloud is mainstream, but the reality is that Enterprises must shift their workloads to the cloud in an orderly, low risk manner....
View ArticleMoving from MySQL to Riak
April 23, 2014 Traditional database architectures were the default option for many pre-Internet use cases and architectures, such as MySQL, remain common today. However, these traditional solutions...
View ArticleWebinar: Jumping to Primetime with NoSQL
The NoSQL database market continues it’s rapid pace of growth and NoSQL databases continue to displace relational databases. Why is this? What are the use cases driving this change? NoSQL database are...
View ArticleDistributed Data Types – Riak 2.0
In a previous post we briefly introduced Riak 2.0 data types. The addition of these distributed Data Types simplifies application development by automatically handling sibling resolution. This means...
View ArticleCoast to Coast Distributed Systems Meetups
March 24, 2014 When selecting a NoSQL solution, there are many options to choose from, each different and with their own benefits depending on your use case. To help you decide what the right choice...
View ArticleEntropy in Riak
March 26, 2014 Riak’s overarching design goal is simple: be maximally available. If your data center is on fire, Riak will be the last part of your stack to fail (and hopefully, you’ve purchased an...
View ArticleBasho at NYLUG
February 5, 2014 At the recent meetup for the New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG), Basho Technical Evangelist, Tom Santero, presented “An Introduction to Basho’s Riak.” In this talk, Tom explains how...
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