Example App: Session store in Riak KV

[mbbroberg]

A great use case for Riak KV is to store session data. I'd like to think through an application that visualizes the session store and walks the user through its implementation.

Brainstorming:

• Using Riak Data Types (CRDT implementation) to store data
• Have a "visits" counter which iterates on the page

I'd be pleased to see this in any language. Rails, Django or something in Go make sense to me. Projects that leverage Node.js or .NET are also popular these days.

[adiri]

Session store... (if you have native json type in CRDT (so no need to process most of the time) and also it’s in memory (including replications) might be a very good fit to replace and extend Redis) and theoretically can provide a fast (hopefully), robust and scalable infrastructure.

[adiri]

@mjbrender can Riak process json natively (with CRDT), it's essential to do the least processing possible and if needed should be done natively. also, it must be denied as in memory (with disk persistence i assume though should be optional. can risk replicate it's in memory engine?

[mbbroberg]

Sure @adiri - disk vs memory is an option for backends. I'd go with bitcask since keyspace is in-memory and writes are durable (persisted to disk). JSON processing is native based on client to the best of my knowledge. I'm most familiar with Ruby but glad to pick up Python for this goal. Any preference?