Does anyone by any chance know if there is a version of the riak python driver that does not use google's protobuf implementation? I'm looking into using riak and hearing this does not exactly instill confidence, as riak uses google's protobuf implementation and http as its two communication protocols.
Take this for what it is (anectdotal evidence) but I found that write performance with python+riak was abysmal, while read performance wasn't as bad.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to hack the riak driver to use a non-google protocol buffer implementation before my deadlines, but it should be do-able.
