<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
Technologies	I-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
distributed	O
systems	O
 '	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
a	O
key-value	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
database	O
technology	O
,	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
an	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
system	O
built	O
upon	O
the	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
platform	O
,	O
called	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
CS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
was	O
the	O
developer	O
of	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
distributed	O
database	O
that	O
offers	O
high	O
availability	O
,	O
fault	O
tolerance	O
,	O
operation	O
simplicity	O
and	O
scalability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
Enterprise	O
was	O
a	O
commercial	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
database	O
offered	O
by	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
project	O
's	O
sponsor	O
,	O
with	O
advanced	O
multi-data	O
center	O
replication	O
and	O
enterprise	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
key	O
value	O
store	O
system	O
that	O
can	O
collect	O
unstructured	O
data	O
and	O
store	O
it	O
as	O
objects	O
in	O
buckets	O
that	O
can	O
then	O
be	O
queried	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
is	O
written	O
in	O
Erlang	B-Operating_System
,	O
a	O
language	O
that	O
gives	O
a	O
system	O
built-in	O
support	O
for	O
distribution	O
across	O
a	O
server	O
cluster	O
,	O
fault	O
tolerance	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
ability	O
to	O
absorb	O
new	O
hardware	O
being	O
added	O
to	O
the	O
cluster	O
without	O
disrupting	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Following	O
the	O
demise	O
of	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
company	O
assets	O
were	O
purchased	O
by	O
Bet365	O
and	O
previously	O
closed	O
source	O
components	O
such	O
as	O
riak_repl	O
(	O
multi-data-centre	O
replication	O
)	O
were	O
released	O
as	O
open-source	O
on	O
github.com	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
also	O
offered	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
Cloud	O
Storage	O
(	O
CS	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
multi-tenant	B-Architecture
cloud	O
storage	O
database	O
,	O
built	O
on	O
the	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
platform	O
,	O
which	O
integrated	O
with	O
private	O
clouds	O
and	O
public	O
clouds	O
such	O
as	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
(	O
AWS	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
enterprises	O
to	O
power	O
internal	O
private	O
clouds	O
and	O
by	O
startups	O
with	O
an	O
Amazon-compatible	O
API	B-General_Concept
for	O
their	O
own	O
download	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
CS	O
includes	O
large	O
object	O
support	O
,	O
S3-compatible	O
API	B-General_Concept
and	O
authentication	O
,	O
multi-tenancy	B-Architecture
and	O
per-user	O
reporting	O
,	O
an	O
operational	O
model	O
for	O
adding	O
capacity	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
visual	O
interface	O
for	O
monitoring	O
and	O
metrics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
1.0	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
September	O
2011	O
and	O
featured	O
secondary	O
indexes	O
,	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
Pipe	O
,	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
Search	O
integration	O
,	O
Lager	O
,	O
and	O
LevelDB	B-Language
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
1.1	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
early	O
2012	O
and	O
included	O
numerous	O
changes	O
to	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
Core	O
,	O
a	O
new	O
ownership	O
claim	O
algorithm	O
,	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
KV	O
improvements	O
and	O
MapReduce	B-Operating_System
improvements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2012	O
,	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
1.2	O
was	O
released	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
Enterprise	O
1.2	O
added	O
SSL	B-Protocol
encryption	I-Protocol
,	O
better	O
balancing	O
and	O
more	O
granular	O
control	O
of	O
replication	O
across	O
multiple	O
data	O
centers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2013	O
,	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
released	O
portions	O
of	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
CS	O
code	O
as	O
open	O
source	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
also	O
announced	O
the	O
commercial	O
version	O
of	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
CS	O
Enterprise	O
,	O
adding	O
multi-datacenter	O
replication	O
,	O
monitoring	O
tools	O
,	O
and	O
24x7	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
1.4	O
featured	O
PN-Counters	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
the	O
database	O
's	O
first	O
distributed	O
data	O
type	O
,	O
PN-Counters	O
are	O
eventually	O
consistent	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
incremented	O
and	O
decremented	O
on	O
any	O
node	O
across	O
the	O
cluster	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
CS	O
1.4	O
provides	O
compatibility	O
with	O
OpenStack	B-Application
,	O
OpenStack	B-Application
Object	B-Application
Storage	I-Application
(	O
Swift	O
)	O
and	O
Ceph	B-Operating_System
object	O
stores	O
with	O
increased	O
scalability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Riak	B-General_Concept
2.0	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
September	O
2014	O
and	O
includes	O
support	O
for	O
new	O
data	O
types	O
,	O
tunable	O
consistency	O
and	O
search	O
integration	O
with	O
Apache	B-Language
Solr	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
Technologies	I-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
January	O
2008	O
by	O
Earl	O
Galleher	O
,	O
former	O
executive	O
vice	O
president	O
at	O
Akamai	B-Application
Technologies	I-Application
and	O
Antony	O
Falco	O
,	O
former	O
VP	O
of	O
product	O
management	O
and	O
technical	O
services	O
at	O
Akamai	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2011	O
,	O
Donald	O
J	O
.	O
Rippert	O
,	O
long	O
time	O
CTO	O
of	O
Accenture	O
joined	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
as	O
president	O
and	O
CEO	O
,	O
and	O
Bobby	O
Patrick	O
,	O
former	O
CMO	O
of	O
GXS	O
and	O
Digex	O
,	O
joined	O
as	O
CMO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
late	O
2012	O
,	O
Rippert	O
left	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
and	O
Gregory	O
Collins	O
took	O
over	O
as	O
CEO	O
of	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
,	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
announced	O
RICON	O
,	O
a	O
two-day	O
distributed	O
systems	O
 '	O
conference	O
for	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2014	O
,	O
Collins	O
stepped	O
down	O
and	O
Adam	O
Wray	O
,	O
former	O
CEO	O
of	O
Tier	O
3	O
,	O
became	O
the	O
new	O
CEO	O
of	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
this	O
time	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
's	O
then	O
CTO	O
,	O
Justin	O
Sheehy	O
,	O
and	O
Chief	O
Architect	O
and	O
original	O
Riak	B-General_Concept
author	O
,	O
Andy	O
Gross	O
,	O
left	O
the	O
company	O
and	O
Dave	O
McCrory	O
,	O
former	O
SVP	O
of	O
engineering	O
at	O
Warner	O
Music	O
Group	O
took	O
over	O
as	O
CTO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Basho	B-General_Concept
was	O
recognized	O
in	O
the	O
DBTA	O
100	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
companies	O
that	O
matter	O
most	O
in	O
data	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
CRN	O
Big	O
Data	O
100	O
for	O
data	O
management	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2017	O
,	O
Basho	B-General_Concept
was	O
put	O
into	O
receivership	O
.	O
</s>
