Riak

Riak is a distributed key-value data storage technology with excellent scalability properties. It is used by the adaptive module, Adaptive Delivery reporting, and Mobile Momentum for resubmission of messages.

Riak is freely available for use in a LAN deployment, but WAN deployments that need to be synchronized require a commercially licensed variant. Note that multiple data centers may still use Riak if each data center has its own local Riak cluster. For more information, see the Riak documentation.

The following describes the default directories and configuration related to the Riak database:

• /opt/msys/3rdParty/riak/ – Riak packages provided by Message Systems are installed under this path.

• /opt/msys/3rdParty/riak/bin – Administrative tools for Riak are provided under this path. These tools are named "riak", "riak-admin" and "search-cmd".

• /opt/msys/3rdParty/riak/etc – Contains the main configuration file named app.config and an additional configuration file named vm.args. The contents of app.config are formatted as an Erlang "term"; a structured file with meaningful "keys" and "values". The file is terminated with a period ‘.’ character. The vm.args file includes the unique names of the nodes in a cluster, as specified with the "-name" parameter switch.

• /var/db/riak – The default configuration for Momentum's Riak package stores Riak state at this location.

  During installation there is no prompt for an alternative data storage location; instead, the system administrator may opt to partition the system such that /var/db/riak maps to its own set of spindles prior to installation or may choose to mount alternative storage. In the latter case, the administrator will need to edit app.config and change the paths that refer to /var/db/riak to the alternate location.

• /var/log/riak – Contains log files.

For additional details about configuration, see “Configuring Riak in a Cluster”.