Riak

Based on 393 responses from 86 people, we've built up the following picture of Riak

Ranked high for:

  1. This database can be a bit arcane
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  6. This database has a low footprint
  7. This database has an unusual data model
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. This database has very good write performance
  10. This database has a good story for replication

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is very easy to get started with
  2. This database is good for querying time series
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  5. This database has a good community around it
  6. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  7. This database is very reliable
  8. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. This database has a very flexible data model

Most similar to

  1. BerkeleyDB
  2. SQLAnywhere
  3. Cassandra
  4. Memcachedb
  5. Sybase

Most dissimilar from

  1. kdb
  2. MySQL
  3. Sqlite
  4. Excel
  5. PostgreSQL

All statements

  1. This database can be a bit arcane
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  6. This database has a low footprint
  7. This database has an unusual data model
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. This database has very good write performance
  10. This database has a good story for replication
  11. This database has a very restrictive data model
  12. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  13. This database is good for querying graph structures
  14. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  15. This database has very good read performance
  16. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  17. This database has a very flexible data model
  18. I am familiar with this database
  19. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  20. This database is very reliable
  21. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  22. This database has a good community around it
  23. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  24. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  25. This database is good for querying time series
  26. This database is very easy to get started with