# Riak KV: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 7 judge labels across 1 category by 4 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/riak-kv

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [NoSQL databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/index.md) | 0% | 79 | 57% | 7 |

## And against it

- "showing essentially zero current recommendation momentum in recent AI-model surveys" (Muse Glimmer 30B, NoSQL)
- "Status: Declining badly — Its DB-Engines score dropped to ~4.21." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, NoSQL)
- "Riak's parent company (Basho) went under" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, NoSQL)
- "Project is legacy with deprecated APIs (Riak KV, older CouchDB)" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, NoSQL)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Riak KV, from 9 of the 11 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- github.com: 5
- aerospike.com: 4
- gane.ai/index: 4
- nvlpubs.nist.gov: 4
- couchbase.com: 3
- dbdb.io: 3
- linkedin.com: 3
- ravendb.net: 3
- cloud.baidu.com: 2
- companyurlfinder.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://github.com/quanpan302/KB-engineering-handbook/blob/main/content/hld/part-2-building-blocks/05-nosql-databases.md: 5
- https://aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases: 4
- https://dbdb.io/browse: 3
- https://cloud.baidu.com/article/3616854: 2
- https://companyurlfinder.com/blogs/wiki/data-storage-architecture/nosql: 2
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.108828: 2
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases: 2
- https://liquibase.com/blog/solving-nosql-database-governance-and-compliance-challenges-with-ci-cd: 2

## In its own words

What Riak KV's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: flexible data models (https://riak.com/)
- For: null (https://riak.com/)
- Price stated: null (https://riak.com/)
- Starting price: null (https://riak.com/)
- Free plan or trial: null (https://riak.com/)
- Customers named: bet365, ShopKeep POS, OpenX, Tapjoy, The Weather Company, Uber

## What it publishes

Every page riak.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 70 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 33 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2017-03-13
- webinar or virtual event: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 4 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2016-10-24
- report or ebook: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2016-05-01
- comparison: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2017-01-11
- template or tool: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2016-05-01
- news or press: 19 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2017-03-03
- Recent: 2017-03-13 blog: Index https://riak.com/posts/technical/dcos-and-riak-mesos-framework/index.html
- Recent: 2017-03-03 news or press: Newsroom https://riak.com/newsroom/
- Recent: 2017-03-01 blog: Index https://riak.com/posts/technical/traditional-data-lake-approach-may-not-be-a-good-choice-for-iot-data/index.html
- Recent: 2017-02-21 blog: Index https://riak.com/posts/technical/create-your-first-riak-ts-table/index.html
- Recent: 2017-02-13 blog: Index https://riak.com/posts/technical/open-source-101-building-community-in-raleigh-nc/index.html
- Recent: 2017-02-07 blog: Index https://riak.com/posts/technical/booking-com-using-riak-as-events-storage-part-4/index.html

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.