Overview

High-performance Redis storage backend for the Riak Distributed Database.

Installation

Pre-requisites: You must build this using the same version of Erlang that was used to build Riak, or build it with the version of Erlang that is bundled with Riak.

$ git clone https://github.com/nathanaschbacher/riak_kv_redis_backend.git
$ cd riak_kv_redis_backend
$ ./rebar get-deps compile

This should automatically build the redis dependencies and move the redis-server binary and redis.conf file the priv/ directory.

Then you need to copy the riak_kv_redis_backend to the lib directory of your Riak install.

$ cd ..
$ cp -R ./riak_kv_redis_backend /path/to/riak/lib

Then create a symlink in the lib directory that points to the built hierdis dependency nested inside the riak_kv_redis_backend project.

$ cd /path/to/riak/lib
$ ln -s ./riak_kv_redis_backend/deps/hierdis ./hierdis

Usage

Edit app.config to set your storage backend to use riak_kv_redis_backend

%% Riak KV config
{riak_kv, [
            {storage_backend, riak_kv_redis_backend},
            ...
          ]},

And add a stanza for configuring hierdis

 %% hierdis Config
 {hierdis, [
          {data_root, "./data/hierdis"},

          {executable, "./lib/riak_kv_redis_backend/priv/redis/redis-server"},
          {config_file, "./lib/riak_kv_redis_backend/priv/riak_kv_redis_backend.redis.config"},
          
          %% The partition id will be appended to the end.  The total path including partition id must be less than 108 bytes.
          {unixsocket, "/tmp/redis.sock."}, 
         
          %% Tell the backend whether or not it should keep Redis running between Riak restarts.
          %% Default is `false`.
          {leave_running, false},

          %% Set the scheme with which data will be stored in Redis.
          %%    `kv`    Combines the `Bucket` and `Key` into <<"Bucket,Key">> and does GET/PUT/DELETE in Redis as
          %%            direct key/value GET/SET/DEL operations.
          %%
          %%    `hash`  Utilizes Redis' internal hash data structures.  
          %%            `Bucket` becomes the name of the hash, `Key` is the key, and uses HGET/HSET/HDEL operations.
          %%            This scheme can produce some improvements in performance and memory utilization, but comes at
          %%            the expense of a ~4 Billion key per bucket per vnode limit.
          %% Default is `kv`.
          {storage_scheme, kv}
         ]},

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Nathan Aschbacher

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