Learn About Riak Data Platform

In This Section

The Learn About Riak Data Platform (BDP) section provides overviews of the various parts and concepts behind BDP. If you are looking for information on setup or usage, check out Using Riak Data Platform.

Service Manager

The service manager is the foundation of the Riak Data Platform. It provides a means for building a cluster of nodes that can deploy, run, and manage platform services.

Cache Proxy

The cache proxy service uses Redis and Riak KV to provide pre-sharding and connection aggregation for your data platform cluster.

Leader Election

The leader election service enables Spark clusters to run without a ZooKeeper instance.

Spark Cluster Manager

The Spark cluster manager provides all the functionality required for Spark Master high availability without the need to manage yet another software system (Zookeeper).