Tech riderRev. 1 Oct 2026
- 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Deployment modelself hosted
- 4Persistence modesboth
- 5TTL supportYes
- 6Clustering supportYes
- 7Multi-region supportYes
- 8Supported protocolsHTTP, Protocol Buffers
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Overview
Riak KV is ranked #3 of 32 in key-value databases on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.
Riak KV plans and pricing
All plansRiak 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
Facts
- Product type
- Riak KV is a distributed NoSQL key-value database with local and multi-cluster replication.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Availability
- Riak KV is designed to continue reads and writes during hardware failures or network partitions.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Its masterless architecture automates data distribution across clusters and scales near linearly on commodity hardware.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Querying
- Riak KV supports Solr full-text search, secondary indexes and MapReduce queries.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Data expiration
- Global Object Expiration automatically removes aged data according to configured expiry settings.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Conflict resolution
- Dotted version vectors track logical time to resolve object conflicts automatically.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Client libraries
- The product provides libraries or clients for Java, Ruby, Python, C#, Erlang, Node.js and .NET.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Riak KV integrates with Apache Spark, Apache Mesos and Redis caching.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Security
- Riak documentation describes authentication and authorization controls and SSL configuration, while noting that Riak does not provide fine-grained role-based security.docs.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- 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.docs.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Support tiers
- Commercial configurations include engineering support ranging from business hours to 24x7x365, with stated SLAs from 24 hours to 30 minutes.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
- Target workloads
- Riak KV is presented for Big Data applications such as session or user data, connected-device data and globally replicated workloads.riak.com · 1 Oct 2026
Best Riak KV alternatives
See all 12 All accessCh 01 Amazon DynamoDB Free planFree trialAndroid Free to start8.2 All accessCh 02 Aerospike Database Free planFree trialAPI Free to start7.5 All accessCh 04 Google Cloud Bigtable Free trialAPIWeb from $0.03/mo7.4 All accessCh 05 Upstash Redis Free planFree trialAPI from $0.20/mo7.4 All accessCh 06 RocksDB Free planAPIiOS Free to start7.3 All accessCh 07 Redis Insight Free planLinuxMac Free to start7.1
Where it ranks on Specifiction
- Best Key-Value Databases in 2026#3 of 32
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Sources
- 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