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by cadamsdotcom 417 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.

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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