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I had never heard of Riak before (shame on me!) and it looks like the exact thing I would need for a project: does anyone care share success|horror stories?

What about price? There is a free version but the prices of the commercial version (with support) are not disclosed. This makes it look like it's targeted at big companies...?

How does it compare to S3?

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You should take ~45 minutes and go through their "Riak Fast Track." https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/The+Riak+Fast+Track It's fantastic (all software should be so well documented!) and will give you a much better idea of what it can do for you.

I enjoyed working on Riak for an internship project I did but I would say that if you are not familiar with using map reduce heavily for querying that you factor that into the amount of time you are going to spend to get Riak up and running. I don't know much this Riak search will impact things but I was storing data in JSON and ended up using a lot of time debugging MR queries because I didn't quite grok some of the finer points such as idempotence.

The big company/small company thing isn't a big deal. I work for a very small company and we were able to get the free version going pretty painlessly.

Here is who is currently using it in production: http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Who+is+Using+Riak

and some comparisons, but not S3

http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons

You can also see a list of customers users here: http://www.basho.com/customers.html

This I had seen, but it looks like big firms.

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