industry distributed systems nosql cloud storage software founded 2008 headquarters bellevue wa key people chester davenport chairman adam wray ceo dave mccrory cto amy pelly cfo products riak riak kv riak kv enterprise riak ts website www.basho.com basho technologies is a distributed systems company that develops a key value nosql database technology riak and an object storage system that is built on the riak platform called riak cs . 1 contents 1 technology and products 2 history 3 external links 4 references technology and products edit basho is the developer of riak an open source distributed database that offers high availability fault tolerance operation simplicity and scalability . 2 riak enterprise is a commercial version of the database offered by basho the project s sponsor with advanced multi data center replication and enterprise support . 3 riak is a key value store system that can collect unstructured data and store it as objects in buckets that can then be queried . it s also highly scalable able to distribute itself over a server cluster and add new servers as needed while maintaining its own high availability . 4 riak is written in erlang a language that gives a system built in support for distribution across a server cluster fault tolerance and an ability to absorb new hardware being added to the cluster without disrupting operations . 5 basho also offers riak cloud storage cs an open source multi tenant cloud storage database built on the riak platform that integrates with private clouds and public clouds such as amazon web services aws . it can be used by enterprises to power internal private clouds and by startups with an amazon compatible api for their own download service . 6 riak cs includes large object support s3 compatible api and authentication multi tenancy and per user reporting an operational model for adding capacity and a visual interface for monitoring and metrics . 7 riak 1.0 was released in september 2011 and featured secondary indexes riak pipe riak search integration lager and leveldb support . 8 riak 1.1 was released in early 2012 and included numerous changes to riak core a new ownership claim algorithm riak kv improvements and mapreduce improvements . 9 in august 2012 riak 1.2 was released . riak enterprise 1.2 added ssl encryption better balancing and more granular control of replication across multiple data centers . 10 in march 2013 basho released portions of riak cs code to open source . basho also announced the commercial version of riak cs enterprise adding multi datacenter replication monitoring tools and 24x7 support . 11 12 riak 1.4 features pn counters which is the database s first distributed data type which are eventually consistent and can be incremented and decremented on any node across the cluster . it has a compact binary data format that reduces storage overheads connected with small objects or large bucket names . 13 riak cs 1.4 provides compatibility with openstack openstack object storage swift and ceph object stores with increased scalability . 14 riak 2.0 was released in september 2014 15 and includes support for new data types tunable consistency and search integration with apache solr . 16 17 riak 2.1 was released in april 2015 18 and focused on further performance and simplification for both developers and system administrators history edit basho technologies was founded in january 2008 by earl galleher former executive vice president at akamai technologies and antony falco former vp of product management and technical services at akamai . in 2011 donald j. rippert long time cto of accenture joined basho as president and ceo 19 and bobby patrick former cmo of gxs and digex joined as cmo . 20 in late 2012 rippert left basho and gregory collins took over as ceo of basho . 21 in march 2014 collins stepped down and adam wray former ceo of tier 3 became the new ceo of basho . at this time basho s then cto justin sheehy and chief architect and original riak author andy gross left the company 22 and dave mccrory former svp of engineering at warner music group took over as cto . 23 mccrory is well known for creating the concept of data gravity a theory that describes the difficulty of relocating large volumes of data due to the physical restrictions of bandwidth . 24 in 2012 basho announced ricon 25 a two day distributed systems conference for developers . 26 basho has hosted ricon west and ricon east in both 2012 and 2013 and hosted a single ricon conference in 2014 and 2015 . basho was recognized in the dbta 100 in the companies that matter most in data and the crn big data 100 for data management . 27 28 external links edit gigaom basho arms would be amazon killers with aws compatible storage techcrunch basho s amazon s3 compatibility gets potent boost with replication capabilities for riak cloud storage the register basho changes 451 research basho takes riak cloud storage platform down open source path 451 research basho previews 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