Riak
Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies. observed · 2026-10-08
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 89
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6031
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 67
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4029 stars · 522 forks observed · 2026-10-08
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Riak is a decentralized, distributed NoSQL key-value datastore built in Erlang by Basho Technologies, designed for high availability and operational simplicity. The ecosystem includes Riak KV for general storage, Riak TS for IoT/time-series workloads, and Riak CS for S3-compatible object storage.
Use cases
- store key-value data across a fault-tolerant distributed cluster
- run a highly available NoSQL database that survives node failures
- handle IoT time-series data at scale
- self-host an S3-compatible object store
- deploy a masterless database with no single point of failure
When to choose
- you need masterless replication and tunable consistency across datacenters
- high availability and partition tolerance matter more than complex queries
- you want an Erlang-based distributed datastore with proven operational track record
When to avoid
- you need rich ad-hoc queries, joins, or SQL
- your dataset is small enough for a single-node database
- you want a project with a large active community and frequent feature development
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
database caching object-storage databases microservices big-data iot cross-platform self-hosted nosql key-value-store erlang distributed-database high-availability time-series s3-compatible linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/basho/riak · fetched 2026-10-08 · 18b37c2c4b85
- homepage: http://docs.basho.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 44dbdd7b8124
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| basho/riak | main | 63 |
| basho/riak_core | backend | 63 |
| basho/riak_kv | backend | 63 |
| basho/leveldb | backend | 63 |
| basho/riak-python-client | sdk | 10 |
| basho/eleveldb | backend | 63 |
| basho/riak-ruby-client | sdk | 10 |
| basho/basho_docs | docs | 72 |
| basho/riak_pipe | backend | 63 |
| basho/riak-go-client | sdk | 23 |
| basho/merge_index | backend | 10 |
| basho/riak_pb | backend | 63 |
| basho/riak-nodejs-client | sdk | 10 |
| basho/riak_test | infra | 72 |
| basho/spark-riak-connector | plugin | 10 |
| basho/riaknostic | infra | 10 |
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