[99s-extend] Riak in Farwest

[Loïc Hoguin]

Let me clarify a few misconceptions here. (Mostly to show the choice 
isn't random, don't take it wrong.)

Riak and Riak CS are two different things. You most likely don't want to 
run them together, especially considering the hardware requirements will 
differ.

Riak core, pipes, etc. are not really useful if you only use Riak as a 
data store. It's cool that your DB has a great distributed processing 
framework but pretty useless when you just want to retrieve some data 
and format it in a web page.

Riak has clustering, yes. PostgreSQL has clustering too.

Riak has data-center aware clustering also if you get Riak Enterprise. 
But it costs a lot (per node!). You can do the same with PostgreSQL at a 
fraction of the price.

Riak is built on Erlang, sure. But why should I care? I only want it to 
handle my data. I don't want to look at the code. PostgreSQL is a much 
proven piece of software.

On 08/02/2013 05:20 PM, Lee Sylvester wrote:
> It's a bit like comparing sports cars to superbikes.  Riak has some very powerful features; Pipes, true clustering, fault tolerance, Riak CS etc.  Plus, it's built on Erlang :-)  PostgreSQL has SQL queries, real tables (rather than simple corruptible namespacing), complex query capabilities, real data types etc.  Each has their place.  For typical websites, PostgreSQL is the better choice.  For distributed applications, Riak is often the better choice. ***
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> Lee
>
> *** Mostly my opinion, only.
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>
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> On 2 Aug 2013, at 16:08, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu> wrote:
>
>> Please tell us what you think makes Riak superior.
>>
>> On 08/02/2013 05:06 PM, Florent Gallaire wrote:
>>> I love the farwest technical choices. But Riak seems to only be the
>>> "prototype' database, and PostgreSQL the real target.
>>>
>>> FMO, this is a huge fail. Riak is by far superior to PostgreSQL. I
>>> want Riak, who really wants PostgresSQL ??
>>>
>>> Florent
>>>
>>
>>
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