Milking Performance from Riak Search. The primary backend store of Clipboard is built on top of Riak, one of the lesser known NoSQLs solutions. We love Riak and are really happy with our experiences with it -- both in terms of development and operations -- but to get to where we are, we had to use some tricks. In this post I want to share with you why we chose Riak and also arm you with some of the best tricks that we learned along the way. Individually, these tricks gave us better than a 100x performance boost, so they may make a big difference for you too.
If you don't know what Clipboard is, you should try it out. Riak Overview. Who is Using Riak. My Year of Riak. Chad DePue, Aug 25 2011 Startups often ask my opinion on databases for their new application.
In the past year we've launched a big CouchDB-based application, and we've helped build stylesclub.com, a Riak-based facebook app (but not yet launched). We've also helped launch ming.ly, an Amazon SimpleDB based application. Each of these has been an opportunity to further develop my philosophy about what makes a good database for a website or mobile app, and when to choose each one.