basho/riak

Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.

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docs.basho.comBrowse cluster: Erlang distributed systems and databases

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Riak - a distributed, decentralised data storage system.

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.

Contributors

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jaredmorrow

493 commits

argv0

417 commits

beerriot

338 commits

dizzyd

203 commits

basho/riak

Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.

4,027

stars

2,237

commits

Shell

primary language

Aug 14, 2026

updated

docs.basho.comBrowse cluster: Erlang distributed systems and databases

README

Riak - a distributed, decentralised data storage system.

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.

Contributors

(top 30 of 78)

jaredmorrow

493 commits

argv0

417 commits

beerriot

338 commits

dizzyd

203 commits

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