Riak Search is the first public demonstration that Riak Core is a meaningful base on which to build distributed systems beyond just a key/value store. By using

Riak Search is the first public demonstration that Riak Core is a meaningful base on which to build distributed systems beyond just a key/value store. By using the same central code base for distribution, dispatch, ownership, failure management, and node administration, we are able to confidently make many of the same guarantees for Search that we have made all along for Riak's key/value storage. Even if Search itself wasn't such a compelling product, it is exciting as a proof of the value of Riak Core Riak Core can abstract away the difficulties of decentralized computing is really exciting to me as well. It's a decentralized message queue or apache zookeeper written in Erlang. I really think the basho team has done an amazing job modularizing the components Riak is comprised of (core, kv, search, etc) to make all bits really re-usable. Well done Basho!