Eric Redmond – Distributed Search on Riak 2.0 Riak excels at one type of query: key puts and key gets. But the world demands more from a database. Since Basho isn't primarily a search company, we decided to leverage the power of Solr for Riak 2.0. This is a walkthrough of what new features we added, how works, and why you'd want to use it. Also, of course, live demos.