Riak KV

Riak KV is ranked #2 of 29 in key-value databases on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

Riak KV plans and pricing

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Riak KV Open Source Free Apache 2 license · key-value data module · masterless built-in replication · HTTP API and Protocol Buffers riak.com · 1 Oct 2026

Riak KV Developer Not published Commercial license · multi-cluster replication · SNMP/JMX support · business-hours engineering support · 24-hour SLA riak.com · 1 Oct 2026

Riak KV Pro Not published Apache 2 license · business-hours engineering support · 4-hour SLA riak.com · 1 Oct 2026

Riak KV Enterprise Not published Commercial license · multi-cluster replication · 24x7x365 engineering support · emergency patches · 1-hour SLA riak.com · 1 Oct 2026

Riak KV Enterprise Plus Not published Commercial license · multi-cluster replication · SNMP/JMX support · baseline and system assessment · 24x7x365 support · onsite assessment twice yearly · emergency patches · 30-minute SLA riak.com · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on key-value databases

Free plan: Yes
Deployment model: self_hosted
Persistence modes: both
TTL support: Yes
Clustering support: Yes
Multi-region support: Yes
Supported protocols: HTTP, Protocol Buffers

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Riak KV

Product type: Riak KV is a distributed NoSQL key-value database with local and multi-cluster replication.
Availability: Riak KV is designed to continue reads and writes during hardware failures or network partitions.
Architecture: Its masterless architecture automates data distribution across clusters and scales near linearly on commodity hardware.
Querying: Riak KV supports Solr full-text search, secondary indexes and MapReduce queries.
Data expiration: Global Object Expiration automatically removes aged data according to configured expiry settings.
Conflict resolution: Dotted version vectors track logical time to resolve object conflicts automatically.
Client libraries: The product provides libraries or clients for Java, Ruby, Python, C#, Erlang, Node.js and .NET.
Integrations: Riak KV integrates with Apache Spark, Apache Mesos and Redis caching.
Security: Riak documentation describes authentication and authorization controls and SSL configuration, while noting that Riak does not provide fine-grained role-based security.
Deployment platforms: Official downloads provide packages or archives for Debian, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, RHEL/CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris, Ubuntu and source builds.
Support tiers: Commercial configurations include engineering support ranging from business hours to 24x7x365, with stated SLAs from 24 hours to 30 minutes.
Target workloads: Riak KV is presented for Big Data applications such as session or user data, connected-device data and globally replicated workloads.
Price from: Free

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riak.com/products/riak-enterprise/index.html· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.riak.com/riak/kv/latest/using/security/index.htm· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.riak.com/riak/latest/downloads/· checked 1 Oct 2026