Riak VS riak_core

Compare Riak vs riak_core and see what are their differences.

Riak

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

riak_core

Distributed systems infrastructure used by Riak. (by basho)
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Riak riak_core
1 1
3,902 1,215
0.4% 0.3%
2.3 2.6
about 2 months ago 2 months ago
Shell Erlang
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Riak

Posts with mentions or reviews of Riak. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-28.
  • 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

riak_core

Posts with mentions or reviews of riak_core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-28.
  • Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
    Making cluster fault tolerant is an art on its own in Erlang ;)

    Riak Core is extremely cool, but Riak is dead by now. It was a child of the times when NoSQL was cool. Still, basho code is interesting to read. (https://github.com/basho/riak_core)

    Self-ads: we've tried to remove Mnesia from our project, HN post incoming, once the library is prettified and tested hard (https://github.com/esl/cets).

What are some alternatives?

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

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

ra - A Raft implementation for Erlang and Elixir that strives to be efficient and make it easier to use multiple Raft clusters in a single system.

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.

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Apache HBase - Apache HBase

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.

Neo4j - Graphs for Everyone

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.

Apache Cassandra - Mirror of Apache Cassandra

Hypertable - A flexible database focused on performance and scalability

noms - The versioned, forkable, syncable database