Chapter 3 Riak Exercises

Day 1

1. Using PUT, update animals/polly to have a Link pointing to photos/polly.jpg
2. POST a file of a MIME type we haven’t tried (such as application/pdf), find the generated key, and hit that URL from a web browser
3. Add medicines:

• Create new bucket type called medicines
• PUT JPEG image value (with proper MIME type) keyed as antibiotics
• Link to the animal Ace (poor, sick puppy)

Day 2

1. Write map and reduce functions against the rooms bucket to find the total guest capacity per floor
2. Extend the previous function with a filter to find the capacities only for rooms on floors 42 and 43

Day 3

1. Create your own index that defines the animals schema.

• Specifically, set the score field to integer type, and query it as a range

2. Start up a small cluster of three servers (such as three laptops or EC2 instances), and install Riak on each

• Set up the servers as a cluster
• Install the Google stock dataset, located on the Basho website