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Kyoto Tycoon vs Riak: What are the differences?
What is Kyoto Tycoon? A handy cache/storage server. Kyoto Tycoon is a lightweight database server with auto expiration mechanism, which is useful to handle cache data and persistent data of various applications. Kyoto Tycoon is also a package of network interface to the DBM called Kyoto Cabinet.
What is Riak? A distributed, decentralized data storage system. Riak is a distributed database designed to deliver maximum data availability by distributing data across multiple servers. As long as your client can reach one Riak server, it should be able to write data. In most failure scenarios, the data you want to read should be available, although it may not be the most up-to-date version of that data.
Kyoto Tycoon and Riak can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
Riak is an open source tool with 3.24K GitHub stars and 530 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Riak's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kyoto Tycoon
- RESTful API2
- Simple, persistent Key-Value Store2
- Easy setup1
Pros of Riak
- High Performance14
- High Availability11
- Easy Scalability9
- Flexible5
- Strong Consistency1
- Eventual Consistency1
- Distributed1
- Multi datacenter deployments1
- Reliable1
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