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by seancribbs 5725 days ago
Riak means "ripple" in Indonesian. This is both the name of a pre-release version of the software and a reference to how storage operations in the k/v store work.
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technomancy 5725 days ago
> Riak means "ripple" in Indonesian.

It's also more commonly used as a root meaning "yell".

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