[99s-extend] Riak in Farwest

[Lee Sylvester]

It's a bit like comparing sports cars to superbikes.  Riak has some very powerful features; Pipes, true clustering, fault tolerance, Riak CS etc.  Plus, it's built on Erlang :-)  PostgreSQL has SQL queries, real tables (rather than simple corruptible namespacing), complex query capabilities, real data types etc.  Each has their place.  For typical websites, PostgreSQL is the better choice.  For distributed applications, Riak is often the better choice. ***

Lee 

*** Mostly my opinion, only.



On 2 Aug 2013, at 16:08, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu> wrote:

> Please tell us what you think makes Riak superior.
> 
> On 08/02/2013 05:06 PM, Florent Gallaire wrote:
>> I love the farwest technical choices. But Riak seems to only be the
>> "prototype' database, and PostgreSQL the real target.
>> 
>> FMO, this is a huge fail. Riak is by far superior to PostgreSQL. I
>> want Riak, who really wants PostgresSQL ??
>> 
>> Florent
>> 
> 
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