Ask HN: Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts?

Post by ag_rin » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

yetihehe wrote: post #5

I was using Riak for IoT measurement storage. Was working well, apart from "not possible to delete something". We got rid of it, because it was WAY oversized for our needs, it requires at least 3 servers to get benefits of architecture and querying data was slow in practice and very unwieldy at start, because you needed to essentially write your own "sharding" and paging support for queries. It was essentially big du…

Post by ag_rin » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

srinathkrishna wrote: post #12

Riak was one of the OG k/v stores by [basho]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basho_Technologies ). They were kind of early to the world of distributed k/v stores and flourished quite a lot but ultimately got usurped by the cloud giants.

Post by yetihehe » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 6:52 AM UTC

ag_rin wrote: post #11

yetihehe wrote: post #5

I was using Riak for IoT measurement storage. Was working well, apart from "not possible to delete something". We got rid of it, because it was WAY oversized for our needs, it requires at least 3 servers to get benefits of architecture and querying data was slow in practice and very unwieldy at start, because you needed to essentially write your own "sharding" and paging support for queries. It was essentially big du…

I’m surprised it had a server minimum. Seems like it should architecturally scale from 1 to whatever. But I guess it isn’t as simple as the front page makes it seem. I assumed it works like a simple distributed compute and storage system