The weekly recap was just posted with a slide decks on riak_core. Excellent timing!
Is the Dynamo stuff in the riak-kv layer, then? Or is it still used for "workload distribution" somehow in riak_core? Or is the Dynamo storage concept not used "at all" in the riak_core? Thanks! -mox On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Justin Sheehy <jus...@basho.com> wrote: > Hi, Mike. > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:46 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? > > Good question. > > Riak Core is the distributed systems center that Riak is built around. > Riak Core is not a standalone database, and in fact by itself it > doesn't do data storage or even much of anything at all from the point > of view of a client application. > > You use Riak to store, query, and retrieve your data. > > You use Riak Core to build something shaped a bit like Riak. > > Another way of looking at this is that Riak Core is a bit more > abstract, providing mechanisms for techniques such as vector clocks, > gossip, and other useful parts of the servers in a robust and scalable > system. Riak, the database, builds on that core by adding a > client-facing storage and retrieval protocol, storage engines for > placing data on disk, and so on. > > I hope that this helps to clarify matters. If not, or even if you > just have additional questions, please ask. > > Best regards, > > -Justin >
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