Riak KV is an open source Erlang application that is distributed using the riak_core Erlang library. Riak KV provides a key/value datastore and features MapReduce, lightweight data relations, and several different client APIs.

Riak is built on top of the Erlang/OTP platform. Supported versions for this release are:

For later OTP versions, an alternative openriak-<release> branch will be required. See the roadmap discussion for further details.

You should have Erlang/OTP 26 to compile and run this version Riak KV. The Riak application is the parent application for Riak KV, providing a set of scripts to build, package, deploy and run a Riak KV store.

Overview documentation on is available in this repository. The documentation is split into the following pages:

• Initial Design Decisions;
• Install and Start Guide;
• Building and then Scaling a Cluster;
• Replication Guide;
• Object API;
• Query API;
• Other API;
• Operations and Troubleshooting Guide;
• Riak Theory Guide.

An online HTML version of this overview is available.

For discussions on Riak development see https://github.com/orgs/OpenRiak/discussions. For direct contact with the OpenRiak development community please use the open-riak channel on the Slack channel for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

./rebar3 do xref, dialyzer, eunit
./rebar3 as test eqc --testing_budget 600

For a more complete set of tests, update riak_kv in the full Riak application and run any appropriate Riak riak_test groups