Any way to embed riak_kv?

[Tombert]

So I've working on a project that lends itself well to a key-value store. The project is written in Erlang, and I would like to keep everything embedded into one mega OTP project instead of a completely separately managed thing.

My solution as of right now is to use a custom thing with bitcask and riak_core [1], and this has been working well enough, but I suspect as I try and scale this I'll hit a lot of the edge cases and weirdness that have already been solved with riak_kv.

Obviously I can just run a separate riak_kv instance but I was curious if it was embeddable at all.

[1] riak_core_lite as of this morning, a fork of OpenRiak 3.2 riak_core prior to this morning.

[martinsumner]

I don't know of anyone that has done this.

It is possible to make Riak KV client calls directly using a riak:local_client(), and then calling the functions directly in the riak_client module (bypassing the API). It should be possible to start the riak_kv application directly - but you would use all the documented CLI features (e.g. for cluster control operations) if you don't start from the full riak package.

It would be an interesting thing to try. I suspect it would require a significant investment in learning how Riak works to do it successfully.