July 10, 2013

We are excited to announce the launch of Riak 1.4. With this release, we have added in more functionality and addressed some common requests that we hear from customers. In addition, there are a few features available in technical preview that you can begin testing and will be fully rolled out in the 2.0 launch later this year.

The new features and updates in Riak 1.4 include:

Secondary Indexing Improvements: Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics

Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics Introducing Counters in Riak: Counters, Riak’s first distributed data type, provide automatic conflict resolution after a network partition

Counters, Riak’s first distributed data type, provide automatic conflict resolution after a network partition Simplified Cluster Management With Riak Control: New capabilities in Riak’s GUI-based administration tool improve the cluster management page for preparing and applying changes to the cluster

New capabilities in Riak’s GUI-based administration tool improve the cluster management page for preparing and applying changes to the cluster Reduced Object Storage Overhead: Values and associated metadata are stored and transmitted using a more compact format, reducing disk and network overhead

Values and associated metadata are stored and transmitted using a more compact format, reducing disk and network overhead Handoff Progress Reporting: Makes operating the cluster, identifying and troubleshooting issues, and monitoring the cluster simpler

Makes operating the cluster, identifying and troubleshooting issues, and monitoring the cluster simpler Improved Backpressure: Riak responds with an overload message if a vnode has too many messages in queue

This 1.4 launch also adds quite a few performance enhancements to Riak Enterprise’s multi-datacenter replication that include:

Replication in Riak 1.4 supports SSL, NAT, and full sync scheduling

Availability of cascading real-time writes gives operators the choice as to whether or not all writes are replicated to all datacenters

Optional use of Active Anti-Entropy during replication in Riak 1.4 to significantly decrease data transfer times is available in Technical Preview

These updates improve the performance of Riak and provide greater functionality and management for both clusters and multiple datacenters. You can download Riak 1.4 at docs.riak.com/riak/latest/downloads.

For a full list of what’s in Riak 1.4, check out our code at Github.com/basho or review the release notes. To learn even more, join our live webcast, “What’s New in Riak 1.4” on July 12th and look for a series of more detailed blog posts over the coming weeks.

We will also be launching Riak CS 1.4 shortly. Keep an eye on our blog for more information.

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