Comment by cadamsdotcom
Comment by cadamsdotcom 2 days ago
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.
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