Re: Evolving data model

2012-09-19 Thread Pinney Colton
Wow, that's a pretty big question. IMO, it depends upon what you're doing with your data. Personally, I'm storing up to 4 different "versions" of the same data in Riak, each version is optimized for different types of analytical operations. That's probably not ideal for everybody. Heck, storing

Re: Strategies for testing against Riak

2012-09-07 Thread Pinney Colton
I ran into this same issue when I was confused by my own initial benchmarking results. For my purposes, I actually shut down the riak nodes, delete the data directories, then restart Riak between tests. I think using a different backend is a good idea that I hadn't considered, unless using the di

Data loads

2012-08-30 Thread Pinney Colton
Hi all - This is my first post to the list. I'm a relative Riak newbie, though I have some experience working with multi-terabyte datasets on other platforms. Last night, I kicked off my first "large" load of data as a test of the platform with about 1,000,000 json objects being loaded into a bu