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 		* [Manhattan: Distributed Key-Value Database at Twitter](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-our-real-time-multi-tenant-distributed-database-for-twitter-scale.html)
 		* [Sherpa: Distributed NoSQL Key-Value Store at Yahoo](https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/120730204806/sherpa-scales-new-heights)
 		* [HaloDB: Embedded Key-Value Storage Engine at Yahoo](https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/178262468576/introducing-halodb-a-fast-embedded-key-value)
-		* [Riak in Chat Service Architecture at Riot Games](https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architecture-persistence)
 		* [MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores at Indeed](http://engineering.indeedblog.com/blog/2018/02/indeed-mph/)
 		* [zBase: High Performance, Elastic, Distributed Key-Value Store at Zynga](https://www.zynga.com/blogs/engineering/zbase-high-performance-elastic-distributed-key-value-store-2)
 		* [Venice: Distributed Key-Value Database at Linkedin](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2017/02/building-venice-with-apache-helix)