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Cassandra was based on the same thing, no? In my experience Cassandra has been what's beaten Riak.

If I remember correctly, Cassandra is actually an ideological frankenstein from pieces of BigTable & Dynamo

EDIT: I don't mean to disparage it, just that it doesn't come as purely from one direction as Riak. It certainly appears to have won

I prefer to think of it as the mullet of the database world: Bigtable in the front, Dynamo in the back.

Vice versa, if network is front and disk is back (as it is in the code).