Hypertable vs Riak

Hypertable

A flexible database focused on performance and scalability (by hypertable)

NoSQL

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hypertable.com

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Riak

Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies. (by basho)

NoSQL Neo4j Key-Value

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docs.basho.com

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Hypertable		Riak
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-	Mentions	1
259	Stars	3,903
0.0%	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	1.9
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C++	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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Hypertable

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Riak

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Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023

Step zero is definitely the OTP Design Principles doc (part of the OTP distribution):
https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/users_guide
There are some good texts that have more examples:
Erlang & OTP in Action - https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-for-scalabili...
One big example of distributed Erlang is Riak:
https://github.com/basho/riak

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hypertable and Riak you can also consider the following projects:

Apache HBase - Apache HBase

CouchDB - Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

Apache Cassandra - Mirror of Apache Cassandra

ArangoDB - 🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

RethinkDB - The open-source database for the realtime web.

LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.