A short to medium term fix might be to go the route of some other database vendors and create a linux VM that can be used in VMWare VPlayer. If I had VMWare, I'd go about doing this, but my VM tools are Mac only...
Jeremiah Peschka Microsoft SQL Server MVP MCITP: Database Developer, DBA On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:03 PM, OJ Reeves <o...@buffered.io> wrote: > As someone who has to spend most of their time in Windows at the moment, > I'd like to just add my view. > > For the sake of development and testing, I have found that running a number > of Riak nodes in a Linux VM on my Windows desktop is as fast, if not faster, > than talking to other databases (such as SQL Server and MySQL) with native > installations. The time and effort to set this up is also comparable. > > As far as production deployments are concerned I would be happy (if not > prefer) to fire up Linux servers to run my Riak nodes instead of Windows. > Partly because of the cost involved, partly for other reasons such as > overhead. > > In short, don't let the lack of Windows support put you off. You can still > have a great time with Riak even if your main OS is Windows. I've not found > it to be a barrier at all. > > Just my $0.02 :) All the best with your experiments. > > OJ > > > On 6 January 2011 10:53, Justin Sheehy <jus...@basho.com> wrote: > >> Hello, Jérôme. >> >> It looks like Jeremiah has already answered one of your questions, so >> I'll get the other. >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jérôme Verstrynge <jvers...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > My other question/remark is: there does not seem to be a downloadable >> > version of Riak for Windows. Is there a technical reason for this or is >> it a >> > 'religious' issue? >> >> There's certainly no operating system religion at work here, simply >> the limited resources of a small team. A few different people in the >> community have been working on Windows support, which we think is a >> great idea -- we just currently don't have anyone spare to make >> official windows releases, QA and benchmark those releases on various >> windows systems, and so on. >> >> -Justin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> > > > > -- > > OJ Reeves > http://buffered.io/ > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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