[Ixiaus]

Interesting. I can vouch for the speed of leveldb on a five node cluster - I'm using it in our startup on 5 dedicated machines with around 12GB of RAM, running on FreeBSD. Riak version is 1.1.4; Riak 1.2 is supposed to have a lot of leveldb refinements.

[stock_toaster]

Good to hear. I will keep poking at things. I probably have something misconfigured or an issue with how I am using the python client.

Thanks.