I gave two talks[1] on Riak in NYC this month and one of the main points tht I tried to stress was that Riak is more than a monolithic persistent data store. Ri

I gave two talks[1] on Riak in NYC this month and one of the main points tht I tried to stress was that Riak is more than a monolithic persistent data store. Riak is actually a very well thought out federation of independant code modules. This had not always been as evident when looking at earlier releases of the source. Over time what became clear is tht Basho was refactoring their code to allow for interesting combinations and enhancemnts over their standard offering. As the OP points out, the recent modularization of riak_core has unleashed a wave of potential within the Riak ecosystem as recently manifested in the form of Riak Search. I'm am certain this design approach of code modularization will prove immensely valuable as Riak continues to mature. [1]http://www.slideshare.net/siculars/adding-riak-to-your-nosql-bag-of-tricks http://www.slideshare.net/siculars/adding-riak-to-your-nosql...