Riak KV

The world's most resilient NoSQL databases

Also known as
riak-kv

What is Riak KV?

Riak KV is a distributed NoSQL database with flexible key-value data models that delivers unmatched resiliency, ensures data accuracy with a never-lose-a-write guarantee, and scales on commodity hardware.

Independently observed

Riak KV pricing

We don't have Riak KV's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

What Riak KV does

The capabilities that matter for key-value stores, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Storage
Storage tier
Persistent
Persistence
Fully durable
Data structures
Rich types
Protocol
Wire protocol
-
Distribution
Clustering
Replicated
Consistency
-
Ops
Eviction / TTL policies
-
Multi-threaded
-
Pub/Sub / streams
-
Transactions / atomic ops
-
Deployment
Deployment
Self-hosted
Licensing
Licence class
Source-available
Compatibility
Redis API compatibility
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Deployment
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (5)

Independently observed
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Solr
  • Apache Mesos
  • Redis
  • Riak S2

Riak KV alternatives

Other key-value stores we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Riak KV, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 26 / 100
low · 20%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability5010.00500.0
Price Level806.00480.0
Pricing Transparency258.00200.0
Integrations228.00179.0
Github Stars247.00165.8
Capabilities017.000.0-
Github Activity020.000.0
Release Cadence012.000.0-
Security Posture018.000.0-
Package Downloads06.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity020.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d0mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars17highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"clustering":"replicated","deployment":"self_hosted","persistence":"durable","storage_tier":"persistent","licence_class":"source_available","data_structures":"rich_types"}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count5mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryErlanghighsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxApache-2.0highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%