[jimparkins]

Three things:

(1) Embrace the fact that a lot of people want to partner up Riak with an in memory DB like Redis and provide documentation, articles, tools to make this easy.

(2) A public face of Basho at events like Scala-days and who engages the community. @rit for 10Gen does a really good job of this - check out his twitter and Github

(3) Do a gap analysis between the content on sites like the cassandra website - I keep feeling like my week reading Cassandra content and articles hammered home fundamentals about the how things were working under the hood more than Riak. Which gives me more confidence than a "it just works" mentality.

[mhluongo]

Doesn't Riak have a memory-based backend? So wouldn't it make more sense to say "here's why you don't also need Redis"?

Ref - http://wiki.basho.com/Memory.html , http://wiki.basho.com/Multi.html

Edit - added another ref link