Basho Technologies Inc. is releasing a new version of its popular key-value store that promises to handle large amounts of unstructured information faster and more reliably than the current version. The update targets the requirements of the global organizations at the forefront the data explosion.

In particular, Riak 2.1 tries to cater to write-intensive workloads such as cloud services and analytic applications with what the company touts as an up to 50 percent increase in the rate at which bytes are copied to storage. That’s a massive improvement with the potential to make a particularly big impact on use cases involving the collection of fast-moving transmissions from connected devices.

Developers can take advantage of the performance hike with a new client for Microsoft’s .NET framework and an officially supported version of the existing Node.js libraries that broaden the range of applications able to take advantage of the database. The speed boost is also translated to Riak CS, an object store built on top of the system that is receiving some new features as well.

One of the more significant additions is an enhancement to the way the database handles conflicting information, the formation of which is more or less inevitable in large-scale implementations due to the lack of the rigorous controls included in earlier relational alternatives. Riak CS 2.0 significantly reduces the risk of such errors finding their way to end-users, which can save a good amount of effort for developers.

The update also tries to simplify life for the administrators in charge of keeping installations running smoothly with a new centralized configuration system that makes operational data more easily accessible to management tools. That matches the broadened support for third party monitoring services introduced in Riak 2.1 and complements the new deployment options added to the object store in conjunction.

Specifically, Riak CS  implements the SHA-256 compatibility of Erlang 16, the latest version of programming language in which it’s written, to accommodate organizations that require the encryption standandard for their environments. The updated object store is available immediately, while Riak 2.1 is set to launch next week.

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