Developing Web Applictions on Riak

The whole rationale for building Web applications is to stay close to customer requirements through rapid innovation. But the performance and flexibility limitations of traditional schema-based data stores have always been the Achilles’ heel in the Web application stack. The RDBMS works fine for a 50-user Web application with minimal load, but adding more users, more load, or more change requests can bring your application to a screeching halt.

Riak addresses the shortcomings in traditional web applications by using a schema-free design that feels more like a structured document with attributes than an inflexible set of rows and columns.

For Web applications that make extensive use of large data sets, Riak’s map/reduce programming model makes crunching this data straightforward.

Riak’s programmability model will be familiar to most Web developers. With Riak, there’s no need for expensive, complicated middleware or object/relational mapping. Every Riak system is programmed with simple HTTP requests, which makes the Riak data store conceptually familiar. And we provide a growing list of libraries for a number of common Web development languages, making programming easy even if you’ve never used a document data store before.

Riak also makes scaling your web app is predictable while also being easy on your operations crew, ensuring developers can spend their precious time coding instead of dealing with database disasters.

And, when it comes to fault-tolerance and availabilty, look no further. Web applications running on Riak have no single point of failure and are completely available.