Case Study: Leading Security Companies Achieve Continuous Global Data Availability with Riak

Leading Security Company - Customer Case Study

Leading Security Company faced the common security‑sector challenge of ingesting and analyzing massive, fast‑growing streams of unstructured machine data across distributed, cloud‑based environments where any downtime can lead to breaches and lost revenue. To meet needs for always‑on reads/writes, low latency, global distribution, and easy capacity growth, they evaluated NoSQL options and chose Riak, specifically Riak KV, for its availability‑first architecture.

Riak implemented a masterless, distributed Riak KV deployment with automatic replication, data healing, and multi‑cluster/global replication to ensure continuous reads and writes and near‑linear scalability as nodes are added. The Riak solution enabled the customer to support multi‑terabyte daily ingestion and high request volumes (similar to deployments that handle millions of endpoints and tens of thousands of requests per second), reduced downtime risk, and lowered operational cost and complexity.