basho/riak

Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.

Source code at GitHub http://docs.basho.com

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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.