RE: Efficiency of RIAK

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Hicks
FYI the documentation for Riak recommends a 5 node cluster, minimum, for production environments for the best utilization of the redundancy and also, I believe, load balancing across the cluster. Chris. > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:29:17 -0700 > From: denis.mel...@gmail.com > To: riak-users@list

riak_core application design questions

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Hicks
Hello everyone, I'm in the beginning phases of building a riak_core application and am curious as to how others might recommend I set up my application. Every single bit of my application will be computation only, that is that all storage and data will be managed by Riak. Basically, a client se

Error trying to launch Riak

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Hicks
Hello everyone, I was following the Riak Fast Track and setting up a dev environment and ran into a problem I am having trouble solving so far. When I try to run ./riak start I'm getting a generic error saying there was an "Error" reading the app.config file. I've navigated there via an Erla

Unable to ping riak node from connected Erlang process

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Hicks
I've been following the directions on this page to start getting a feel for Riak to see if I will want to use it for a project of mine. I successfully started the Erlang console with the path set to the riak client directory, meaning code:which(riakc_pb_socket) works properly. As does the start

RE: Number of nodes and links

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Hicks
e to use riak as your long-term persistent data-store but in > this specific use case I believe Riak is not the appropriate solution. Also, > redis would be at least an order of magnitude faster. > > -Alexander > > > On May 15, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Chris Hicks wrote: > &g

RE: Number of nodes and links

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Hicks
First of thank you for the responses. As far as the HTTP interface I don't plan on using that but will be connecting directly through Erlang, so that 8kb limit for that specific case, as far as I understand, won't affect me as much. I would like to get to understand the conflict hand

Number of nodes and links

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Hicks
ber of nodes, essentially dedicating each physical CPU to handling a hardware node (if that is possible)? What would the pros and cons be to a single or multi-node system on that sort of hardware? Chris Hicks. ___

Getting Riak to work

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Hicks
Alright, so I've worked my way through a few hurdles in getting this thing to work properly but I've hit a spot where I don't know what to try next. keep in mind that I am learning both Erlang and Riak at the same time, or at least trying to. Connecting works just fine: {ok, Pid} = riak: