To add to what Jeremiah said about CRDT support in the upcoming release of
Riak (2.0) see this GitHub issue: https://github.com/basho/riak/issues/354


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Jeremiah Peschka <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Siblings don't have to be limited to terrible scenarios - they're a
> feature that makes sense for many workloads using an eventually consistent,
> distributed database like Riak.
>
> Siblings are being used under the covers in Riak 2.0 to implement sets,
> maps, and counters. Riak 1.4.x implements counters using siblings, too.
>
> There's a whole set of data types called CRDTs that can be used to
> implement rich data types in a system like Riak. There's work already in
> place to do this with some of the existing clients and I started a project
> to implement CRDTs through CorrugatedIron:
> https://github.com/peschkaj/MoarDT/
>
> The only tricky bit is that you can never be quite sure if you've read
> everything. Oh, and garbage collecting the CRDT can be tricky if you're
> using a client generated CRDT - you can end up with a large number of
> siblings if you aren't careful.
>
>
> ---
> Jeremiah Peschka - Founder, Brent Ozar Unlimited
> MCITP: SQL Server 2008, MVP
> Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Alex Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi I'm very new to Riak. The allow_mult = true /  Siblings feature is
>> very interesting. Could it be used to implement a high performance
>> collection like a Queue or Set, in a lock free manner? The Riak docs
>> make it sound like allow_mult is mainly for confict resolution and
>> degenerate cases, rather than a feature which a data structure could
>> be designed around.  Does anyone have any links to share, or thoughts
>> about this broader issue?
>> Thanks much!
>> Alex
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