Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.
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To build riak, Erlang OTP 22 or higher is required.
make rel will build a release which can be run via rel/riak/bin/riak start. Riak is primarily configured via rel/riak/etc/riak.conf
To make a package, install appropriate build tools for your operating system and run make package.
To create a local multi-node build environment use make devclean; make devrel.
To test Riak use Riak Test.
legacy documentation is still generally relevant.
Issues and PRs can be tracked via Riak Github or Riak KV Github.
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Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.
4,027
stars
2,237
commits
Shell
primary language
Aug 14, 2026
updated
To build riak, Erlang OTP 22 or higher is required.
make rel will build a release which can be run via rel/riak/bin/riak start. Riak is primarily configured via rel/riak/etc/riak.conf
To make a package, install appropriate build tools for your operating system and run make package.
To create a local multi-node build environment use make devclean; make devrel.
To test Riak use Riak Test.
legacy documentation is still generally relevant.
Issues and PRs can be tracked via Riak Github or Riak KV Github.
(top 30 of 78)
Shell
59.4%
Erlang
28.4%
Makefile
11.5%