Minor quibble: the article is about RiakTS, their time-series enhanced version of riak_core.<p>riak_core&#x27;s main strength is that it does key-value in a distributed&#x2F;resilient manner, spreading values in multiple copies (at least 3) all over a cluster of servers. Kill one server, no problem. Need more capacity, add servers and it will rebalance itself.<p>The TS part is just an optimization built on top of that, to make values which are near each other in time to be near each other in storage, for faster range-base retrieval.