Congratulations! I hope no Basho employees were injured in the last couple days of what, reading between the lines, sounded like a hard fought battle!<p>I'm about to dig in and read the release notes, upgrade etc, but I've been keeping up with the betas, so here's my early thoughts on Riak 1.0.<p>With 1.0 Basho has really started to separate from the pack.<p>I think secondary indexes are very well implemented and while they can be expanded feature wise over the years, as an %80 solution they are a no brainer-- and pack the double whammy of cutting developer time, and by efficiently reducing scope of Map/Request processing they can also boost performance.<p>I think the real sleeper hit, though, is riak_pipe. This moves Riak from just being a "database" or even a "batch processing system" into a realtime platform. I think in 3 years, this will be seen as the feature that put the elbow in Riak's growth. I'm hoping to have high level support for riak pipe in Nirvana when its released, and can't wait to start using it. Once again, I think you've saved me a couple months of work.<p>I know a lot of work was done on supporting new backends, specifically, LevelDB, and consolidating/unifying the existing ones (like merging ETS and Cache into the new RAM backend.) I think a blog post on each of the backends and when best to use them would be very useful (though this might be covered in the new docs.)<p>And Search Integration. I think this is the first NoSQL solution with built in, scalable, full text search.<p>Before, if you'd decided to go NoSQL, you kinda had to decide which architecture worked best for you and hope they had the features you wanted. I chose Riak because, I believe, it has the best architecture for the class of problems I'm solving... but now it also has a very complete set of features. I'm not sure if any of the competition is as complete out of the box, but even if they are, Riak should be in a lot more evaluations than it has been in the past.<p>Further, everything is so elegantly engineered that you've built an exceedingly attractive platform for us developers.<p>Bravo, and thank you very much!