This is a ShowOff presentation about Riak for CoMO Rich Web's NoSQL Smackdown.

TOC

1. Intro.

• Basho

2. What Riak is

• Distributed data store, et. al.
• CAP Theorem

3. How Riak works

• Buckets/Keys (example output of bucket/key)
• Links/Metadata
• Nodes, Vnodes, and Partitions
• Distribution

4. Using Riak

• API: Reading, writing, and MapReduce
• curl ex.

5. New Hotness

• Secondary Indexes
• Search
• Pipe

You can view the presentation here: http://ctshryock.github.com/riak-talk

If you want to view it locally, you need to install Showoff, clone the repo, and then run serve:

$ gem install showoff
$ git clone git://github.com/ctshryock/riak-talk.git
$ cd riak-talk
$ showoff serve

Go to http://localhost:9090 to view the presentation.