Want more details about Riak's new Data Types? They're on GitHub: https://github.com/basho/riak/issues/354
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Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
From the project README
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Read the project’s introduction
Riak - a distributed, decentralised data storage system.
To build riak, Erlang OTP 22 or higher is required.
make rel will build a release which can be run via rel/riak/bin/riak start. Riak is primarily configured via rel/riak/etc/riak.conf
To make a package, install appropriate build tools for your operating system and run make package.
To create a local multi-node build environment use make devclean; make devrel.
To test Riak use Riak Test.
legacy documentation is still generally relevant.
Issues and PRs can be tracked via Riak Github or Riak KV Github.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
4 sourcesAs a longtime follower, let me say, nice work guys! It's amazing to see how far Riak has come. I have a question.
> Secondary Indexing Improvements: Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics
So the results can be sorted but are not stored in sorted order in the secondary indices?
> Introducing Counters in Riak: Counters, Riak’s first distributed data type, provide automatic conflict resolution after a network partition
Awesome!
P.S. more info here: https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/1.4/RELEASE-NOTES.md
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