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.
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 tier
- Persistent
- Persistence
- Fully durable
- Data structures
- Rich types
- Wire protocol
- -
- Clustering
- Replicated
- Consistency
- -
- Eviction / TTL policies
- -
- Multi-threaded
- -
- Pub/Sub / streams
- -
- Transactions / atomic ops
- -
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licence class
- Source-available
- Redis API compatibility
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- 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.
- MemcachedFree & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching systemlow · 11%
- RedisServe your agents fresh data at Redis speedlow · 39%
- RocksDBA persistent key-value store for fast storage environmentslow · 17%
- DragonflyDBAn In-Memory Data Store without Limitslow · 36%
- UpstashServerless Data Platform for Redis, Vector, QStash, Workflow, Boxmedium · 63%
- RedisServe your agents fresh data at Redis speedmedium · 55%
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 8.00 | 179.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 24 | 7.00 | 165.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 17.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Github Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | - |
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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 17 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Erlang | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |