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I actually started in Riak before Mongo, and what made the decision for me was...not having to install Erlang. I realize that's not really a compelling argument

by cheald 15y ago

I actually started in Riak before Mongo, and what made the decision for me was...not having to install Erlang. I realize that's not really a compelling argument, but when I was evaluating alternate DBs, the one that gets up and running the fastest is likely to get a little more attention from me. Once I got spun up on Mongo, I didn't find a compelling reason to switch away from it. "Download and unpack the package, run the binary, and you can instantly start playing with the examples from the console" is a hell of a good way to get people interested in your software.

aphyr 15y ago
wget http://downloads.basho.com/riak/riak-0.14/riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb dpkg -i riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb Our production configuration and setup/deploy recipes for riak are 241 lines in total, ~150 of which are the stock config files.
- cheald 15y ago
  This would have been something like 18 months ago, and was on an older Fedora box. It wasn't quite so trivial as that two-liner.
rbranson 15y ago
Ease of first time developer installation should never be the deciding factor in these decisions. I realize it is pretty rampant, but it's not something we should be proud of.
- SystemOut 15y ago
  Yeah but how long should I spend on software that I know nothing about the quality of if it's not easy to get up and running? Do you spend a day? two days? While it's mostly just from experience I find that virtually no one makes a decision based on how easy it is to get up and running with a piece of software but it is an impression that stick's in people's minds and gets repeated when they talk about it later.
- cheald 15y ago
  I completely agree, and I'm not saying that MongoDB is better because it has an easier install. The question was just "Why did you go to MongoDB over Riak?", and I did because I was able to start evaluating it faster, and discovered that it met my needs handily, deprecating the need to wrestle with my Erlang install any further.
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by cheald 15y ago

aphyr 15y ago

wget http://downloads.basho.com/riak/riak-0.14/riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb dpkg -i riak_0.14.2-1_amd64.deb Our production configuration and setup/deploy recipes for riak are 241 lines in total, ~150 of which are the stock config files.

cheald 15y ago
This would have been something like 18 months ago, and was on an older Fedora box. It wasn't quite so trivial as that two-liner.

rbranson 15y ago

Ease of first time developer installation should never be the deciding factor in these decisions. I realize it is pretty rampant, but it's not something we should be proud of.

SystemOut 15y ago
Yeah but how long should I spend on software that I know nothing about the quality of if it's not easy to get up and running? Do you spend a day? two days? While it's mostly just from experience I find that virtually no one makes a decision based on how easy it is to get up and running with a piece of software but it is an impression that stick's in people's minds and gets repeated when they talk about it later.
cheald 15y ago
I completely agree, and I'm not saying that MongoDB is better because it has an easier install. The question was just "Why did you go to MongoDB over Riak?", and I did because I was able to start evaluating it faster, and discovered that it met my needs handily, deprecating the need to wrestle with my Erlang install any further.

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