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Ask HN: Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts?

11 points ag_rin | 2 comments | 22 Apr 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source

I’ve just stumbled upon RIAK. It seems like a very cool technology. Almost like an alternative to kubernetes. Has anyone used it in production? Why isn’t it more well known? It seems like an awesome solution.
1. cadamsdotcom ◴[22 Apr 25 05:34 UTC] No.43759331[source]▶
It claims to be a distributed nosql kv store, very different to k8s. You might have just as much luck with eg. Clickhouse. Or boring old postgres.

I worked on some systems that supported Riak as a deployment option in 2013, but haven't since.

There isn't much recent news on it: https://aphyr.com/posts/285-jepsen-riak is from 2013 and Aphyr hasn't written about it in years. Armchair suspicion since we haven't heard about it in years is that it's pretty much end-of-life, deployed in a few legacy sites. But I'm curious too if it's still being considered for modern infra.

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2. ag_rin ◴[22 Apr 25 17:10 UTC] No.43764278[source]▶
That was just the KV part, but it’s all built on top of Riak core and compute which does end up looking for like k8s. But yeah the reason I asked is because I stumbled upon it and wanted to know if it’s basically dead