201111.17

Rekon - a simple Riak GUI

I was looking around for Riak information when I stumbled (not via stumble, but actually doing my own blundering) across a blog post that mentioned a Riak GUI. I checked it out. Install is simple and oddly enough, the tool uses only javascript and Riak (no web server needed). I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed by it. Currently the tool doesn't do a ton besides listing buckets, keys, and stats, but you can edit your data inline and delete objects. It also supports Luwak, which I have no first-hand experience with and was unable to try out.

One thing I thought that was missing was a way to run a map-reduce on the cluster via text input boxes for the functions. It would make writing and testing them a bit simpler I think, but then again it would be easy enough to write this myself in PHP or even JS, so maybe I'll add it in. Search integration would be nice too, although going to 127.0.0.1:8098/solr/[bucket]search?... is pretty stupid easy.

All in all, a great tool.