Introduction to Riak

About The Talk:

“Riak is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed database.” A lot of words. Substantial meaning. Somewhat confusing.

Join members of the @Basho (http://www.twitter.com/basho) team as we give a technical Introduction to Riak including:

Good and bad use cases for Riak Some user stories of note Riak's architecture: consistent hashing, hinted handoff, replication, gossip protocol and more APIs and client libraries Features for searching and aggregating data: Riak Search, Secondary Indexes and Map Reduce What's new in the latest version of Riak Speaker Bio:

Tyler “I love me some data” Hannan is the Director, Technical Marketing for Basho and runs their Partnerships & Alliances program. Basho, as a distributed company, has employees around the world and Tyler is based in CO. Prior to Basho, he was the Platform Evangelist for denver-based startup IP Commerce. With a career that spans traditional OLTP and OLAP implementations, Platform & API business, and NoSQL he provides a balanced perspective on technology implementations designed to meet extant (or nascent) business needs).