SoftLayer adds Riak database service to its mix
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Cloud service and hosting provider adds distributed Riak NoSQL database to its mix of services. Read more »
Getting beyond the cult of big data
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Asking how something is better than Hadoop is not the right question. For strategic thinking around big data companies need to figure out what they want to achieve, not what tool to use. Read more »
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Emerging trends in the non-relational database market
Observers of database technology should look closely at the non-relational database market to see where the most interesting growth lies in the world of applied information storage and retrieval. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
NoSQL startup Basho raises $11.1M and storms Japan
Basho Technologies, the company behind the Riak NoSQL database and the Riak CS cloud storage platform, has raised $11.1 million and has entered into a partnership with data center provider IDC Frontier to distribute its technology throughout Japan. Read more »
Basho arms would-be Amazon killers with AWS-compatible storage
Basho, a startup that’s already jumped into the NoSQL database deep end, just released cloud-based storage services built on that NoSQL foundation. Expect the competition to be fierce: RiakCS joins a huge pool of cloud storage offerings from everyone from Amazon to Zettanet. Read more »
How NoSQL database Riak makes Bump work
Database startup Basho on Tuesday released details of how its Riak NoSQL database underpins Bump. Bump is the seventh most-downloaded free iPhone app of all time — with more than 80 million downloads — so it has a lot of data to store and transfer. Read more »
The NoSQL tapes and documenting a technical movement
Databases aren’t sexy. Except for possibly a brief moment in 2010 and perhaps a bit of 2011 when every reader of Hacker News was sharing his or her experience and every coder on GitHub wanted to know more. The NoSQL Tapes captures this moment. Read more »
Why Accenture’s CTO made the move to NoSQL startup CEO
In late June, Accenture CTO Don Rippert left the company after nearly 30 years to serve as CEO of NoSQL database startup Basho. Why would someone leave a top role at a Fortune 500 company for a 40-person startup in a niche market? Read more »
NoSQL Startup Basho Raises $7.5M for Riak
Lost in the wake of Membase and CouchOne merging to form Couchbase, and far away from Silicon Valley, Boston-based NoSQL startup Basho has raised $7.5 million for its efforts to commercialize the Riak NoSQL database, according to a report in Mass High Tech. Read more »
