Is luwak production ready?

Question

I'm implementing a blob store over Riak KV to make an experiment storing mail attachment. Riak CS seems over reaching for this goal.

I already have a prototype implemented in Python and many ideas to keep working on it. Today I stumbled upon luwak, which has a similar design, however much more complete and consistent with the Merkle tree metadata.

Is luwak abandoned in favor of Riak CS? Is it production ready?

Answer 1

Looks like it has been abandoned:

Hi all,
I wanted to take a moment and let the community-at-large know that we are going to end-of-life the Luwak functionality in Riak, as part of our 1.1 release in February. This simply means that the Luwak repo on Github will not be actively developed/supported by Basho, or included as a default Riak dependency. In keeping with our commitment to Open Source, the code will still be available if someone else wants to develop on it. You can also continue to use it with Riak if you are willing to edit the deps and compile from source -- the Luwak README will contain information on how to do this.
While the idea of Luwak was interesting, we ultimately decided that it wasn’t the architectural path we wanted to pursue for storing larger values in Riak. If Luwak is a piece of your Riak deployment, we’d love to hear from you and incorporate your feedback into future directions.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to myself or Mark Phillips.
Thanks, D.

The last commit on the open-source project was a little over 3 years ago, and it's had an outstanding pull request open for 10 months (the comments on there are not encouraging either). So yeah, I'd say it's pretty dead.