This whitepaper will provide you with both background and detailed information on relational databases versus Riak. Riak is a distributed NoSQL database that helps you store, manage, and secure unstructured data in a fault-tolerant, highly available platform. Riak can be operationalized at lower costs than traditional relational databases and is easy for you to manage at scale. It scales up and out enabling you to add commodity hardware, as needed, for additional capacity. In this brief, we will look at why companies choose Riak over a relational database.
