"Dynamo based apps" is what is throwing me; Dynamo is a storage paradigm.
So what your'e saying, really, is that riak_core is basically a clustering configuration on top of OTP, and that Dynamo really doesn't have any play here? Wouldn't Dynamo be in the riak-kv layer? -mox On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Zezeski <rzeze...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mike, > > Riak (to be specific, riak-kv) it built atop riak-core. The Basho devs > recognized that a lot of the things that made riak-kv great were more > general than just key-value storage. This includes things like consistent > hashing, virtual nodes, hinted handoff, etc. They built riak-core as a > foundation to build Dynamo based apps. You could use riak-core to build a > distributed computing cluster (i.e. no data, just for distributing work). > One example, a pretty original one I might add too, is Rusty's BashoBanjo > which uses riak-core to power a "distributed orchestra." [1] > > I think riak-core has a lot of potential beyond it's current usage and I'm > working on a small but not completely trivial example that I hope to > illustrate with a blog post. Specifically, I want to focus on the mechanics > of the "vnode" as this, AFAICT, is the main player when you want to leverage > riak-core. Consider this a teaser to make sure I follow thru on my word :) > > -Ryan > > [1]: https://github.com/rklophaus/BashoBanjo > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Mike Oxford <moxf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I thought I understood Riak, then I ran across the fact that riak_core was >> split out separately. >> >> When would you use riak_core that you wouldn't use Riak? Is it more >> ephemeral, with shared state >> in an ETS ring compared to a storage-backed node? >> >> Thanks... >> >> -mox >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >
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