"Being document-based datastores, Riak and CouchDB are the most direct competitors to MongoDB"
But Riak is a Key-Value store, not a document one. If that's the premise I wonder how illuminating the rest can be (I kept reading: it's not)
But Riak is a Key-Value store, not a document one. If that's the premise I wonder how illuminating the rest can be (I kept reading: it's not)
But they fall squarely in different categories: Riak KV, MongoDB document (and HBase Column, Neo4J Graph for example)
"For better or worse, many people consider MongoDB and Riak to be competitors. In reality, there are very few similarities between the products."
http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-co...