16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Riak first-hand: 5 endorse it, 4 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“We got rid of it, because it was WAY oversized for our needs, it requires at least 3 servers ... querying data was slow in practice and very unwieldy”
regret · production · yetihehe · 2025-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nearly 10 years later and I still consider my time working on Riak at Basho the highlight of my career.”
endorse · production · jtuple · 2024-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Riak passed our test at that time, MongoDB didn't.”
endorse · personal · rmetzler · 2024-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on a team that built a massive, high-performance internal service based on Riak... As it gets bigger, the seams will start to burst”
regret · production · 0xbadcafebee · 2024-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The conflict resolution was a steep learning curve, but overall, it was kind of nice (coming from Mongo).”
mixed · production · red_hare · 2024-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I never managed to crash Riak in a production environment”
endorse · production · StreamBright · 2018-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The restart times of the Riak process ranged from 10 minutes to 3+ hours, during which time the cluster was basically useless.”
regret · production · shinydevops · 2016-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had a lot of luck hoisting the components of Burp into a series of web applications and backend systems backed by Riak”
endorse · production · tptacek · 2014-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a Riak cluster, and for us the actual response times we get from Riak are, as described, slower than what Amazon promises in its docs.”
regret · production · PanMan · 2012-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I find writing MapReduce jobs (in JavaScript no less) to be unbelievably clean and easy when your stack is Riak + Node.”
endorse · personal · Animus7 · 2011-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using Riak for the last year and have had lots of fun learning a few lessons the hard way.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · lucaspiller · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's not easy to run Riak on AWS. It loves I/O. To be fair, they say this loud and clear so that's my problem.”
mixed · production · joevandyk · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Riak allows you to tweak knobs in order to favor of certain aspects of CAP theorem at different times while in production”
mixed · production · 0.2 yr · siculars · 2010-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“used Riak last time around, but that was over ten years ago”
neutral · personal · 3pt14159 · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Storage for blobs etc is in Riak.”
neutral · production · philippeback · 2013-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Here's a video about how we use Riak (and Scala) in production”
neutral · production · bkudria · 2011-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?