# Riak KV

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/riak/  
**Website:** https://riak.com  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Riak KV is a distributed NoSQL key-value database originally developed by Basho Technologies, designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability across commodity hardware. Riak exposes two client-facing APIs: a RESTful HTTP API for basic GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE operations, and a higher-performance Protocol Buffers (PBC) API spoken over TCP. Both APIs support buckets, objects, secondary indexes, search, MapReduce, and CRDT data types.

## Kin Score — 24.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 44.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **Riak KV HTTP API** — RESTful HTTP API for Riak KV providing GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE access to buckets, objects, secondary indexes, search, MapReduce, and CRDT data types. Default port is 8098. Au...
- **Riak Protocol Buffers Client API** — Higher-performance binary client API for Riak KV using Protocol Buffers messages encoded over a long-lived TCP connection. Default port is 8087. Each request message produces on...
- **Riak KV Mapred API** — The Mapred API from Riak KV — 1 operation(s) for mapred.
- **Riak KV Ping API** — The Ping API from Riak KV — 1 operation(s) for ping.
- **Riak KV Riak KV HTTP API API** — The Riak KV HTTP API API from Riak KV — 1 operation(s) for riak kv http api.
- **Riak KV Search API** — The Search API from Riak KV — 4 operation(s) for search.
- **Riak KV Stats API** — The Stats API from Riak KV — 1 operation(s) for stats.
- **Riak KV Types API** — The Types API from Riak KV — 7 operation(s) for types.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Riak Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 11 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Riak Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Riak Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Database, NoSQL, Key-Value Store, Distributed Systems, Open-Source, Basho, CRDT

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/riak/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.