Free Webinar: Load-Testing Riak - June 3rd @ 2PM Eastern

May 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM | categories: Operations, NoSQL, Ops, Database, Scalability, Riak

We frequently receive questions about how Riak will behave in specific production scenarios, and how to tune it for those workloads. The answer is, generally, that it depends — the only way to know for sure is to measure!

We invite you to join us for a free webinar on Thursday, June 3 at 2:00PM Eastern Time to discuss how to measure Riak performance and develop your own action testing plan. We'll discuss:

  • Understanding what to test, and how to test it
  • Classifying your application and its load profile
  • Configuring and using our load generation and measurement tool
  • Interpreting the results of your test and taking next steps

As part of the webinar, you will get access to and a demonstration of basho_bench, our benchmarking and load-testing tool. The presentation will last 30 to 45 minutes.

Registration will be limited to 20 parties, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Fill in the form below if you're serious about getting a scalable, predictable, cost-effective storage solution in Riak!

UPDATE: Due to overwhelming demand for this Webinar, we are expanding the number of seats available. So don't shy away from registering if you think it's full. We will have plenty of room for you!

— The Basho Team

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NoSQL No Niche

December 02, 2009 at 03:29 PM | categories: NoSQL, Database, Scalability, Analytics, Distributed Systems, Riak, Fault Tolerance

In the last two weeks, Basho has been fortunate to sign up some pretty cool clients. Considering we are a young company, that a database is among the stickiest pieces of software and therefore decisions to deploy something new are undertaken with caution, and that we have spent approximately $7,000 on marketing (mostly on sponsorship of a single event), the fact we are getting ten leads a week and converting leads to customers seems pretty amazing.

While this obviously puts the lie to the idea that the market for NoSQL is too early to build a business on, one thing is certain: what people want from NoSQL varies from significantly from client to client.

Some want high availability (especially write-availability) and scalability. Some want distributed analytical capabilities and low latency on queries of big data sets. Some want both. All of the people we are talking to have specific applications in mind and all of them are interested in using NoSQL to do something they really could not do before.

This is the proverbial "greenfield" for NoSQL. Not verticals (and especially not social networking, which is over-represented in examples because two of the great early NoSQL data stores were developed by Facebook and LinkedIn), but pent up demand is where we see growth and opportunity.

Some investors and product types worry this means there is no specific niche NoSQL fills, meaning the market is small and making it hard for small companies to thrive. While I happen to agree with the premise (there is no specific niche), I view that as an indicator of the potentially massive size of the opportunity. We are seeing pent up demand from companies that want to build web applications that are more reliable, scale better, use distributed map/reduce and indexing features, and run in data centers across continents.

No niche there.

Best,

Tony Falco


Justin Sheehy's Presentation at NoSQL East Now Available for Viewing

November 18, 2009 at 09:30 AM | categories: NoSQL, Ops, Database, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Riak, Fault Tolerance

Thanks to the hardwork of Brad Anderson and the rest of the NoSQL East organizers, Justin Sheehy's presentation is now online and ready to be consumed. You can check it out here: http://bit.ly/2wDhWs

Justin spends a little time discussing Riak and then quickly moves on to a discussion of first principles.

Justin's presentation stands on its own but it is worth pointing out: terms like "scalable" and "distributed" and "fault tolerant" are not marketing terms. Applied rigorously, the principles underlying them (a hat tip to folks like Brewer, Lewin/Leighton/Karger et. al.) lead to game-changing software.

Building truly decentralized systems requires discipline. Shortcuts for premature optimization ultimately lead to a dead end.

Enjoy,

Tony Falco