Basho Technologies

What Basho Technologies does

Basho Technologies, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, develops and commercializes Riak, a family of distributed NoSQL databases built on a shared, multi-model code foundation. The product portfolio centers on Riak KV (a distributed key-value store for web-scale session, profile, content, customer-360, and digital-messaging workloads), Riak TS (a time-series optimized database for IoT and event-data use cases, released as open source in 2016), Riak S2 (an object storage layer for large files and multimedia content), and Riak Explorer (an open-source cluster administration tool available on GitHub). The company's underlying technical bet is that enterprise applications serving global audiences need a database that delivers data availability, data accuracy (with a stated no-write-loss guarantee), and cost-effective scale on commodity hardware — a proposition validated by customer-reported metrics such as 250,000+ operations per second at sub-millisecond latency with minimal operational headcount.

Basho operates a dual open-source / commercial model: Riak KV and Riak TS are offered as free downloads, while revenue is generated through enterprise licensing of commercial builds, annual support subscriptions, and professional services for implementation and consulting. The go-to-market is sales-led enterprise, complemented by direct-download product-led acquisition for the open-source tier, with integrations into Apache Spark, Apache Solr, Apache Mesos, and Redis used to embed Riak within broader open-source data architectures. Marketing is conducted primarily through content assets (data sheets, whitepapers, case studies, blog, documentation portal) and an active developer community.

The customer base is enterprise-led and cross-vertical, with publicly named production deployments at bet365 (gaming), ShopKeep POS (retail technology), OpenX (ad tech), Tapjoy (mobile gaming), The Weather Company (weather/media), and Uber (ride-sharing). Basho has raised approximately $61.2 million in disclosed equity funding across nine rounds between 2008 and 2015, with Georgetown Capital Partners as the most active institutional investor. The company is private and operates with a 101–250 person headcount under Executive Chairman Chester Davenport and VP of Enterprise Sales Peter Sheldon.

Name

Basho Technologies

Website

https://basho.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Basho Technologies develops and commercializes Riak, a distributed NoSQL database family (Riak KV, Riak TS, Riak S2) built on a shared multi-model code foundation, serving enterprise web, mobile, IoT, and time-series workloads via open-source plus commercial enterprise licensing and support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Distributed NoSQL Database

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

NoSQL Database Management Systems (HDAEAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multi-Model Databases (HDAEAAAL), Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring) (HDAEAAAO)

Keywords

• Distributed NoSQL database
• Key-value store
• Time series database
• Object storage
• Enterprise database software

Headquarters

HQ city

Bellevue

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Software Licenses and Support: Commercial versions of Riak KV and Riak TS with professional support services and enterprise-grade features beyond the open source offering
2. Professional Services: Support and Professional Services designed to meet the needs of open source and Enterprise customers including implementation and consulting

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Basho Technologies develops and sells the Riak family of distributed NoSQL database products. The portfolio includes Riak KV (a distributed key-value database for web-scale applications), Riak TS (a time series database optimized for IoT workloads), and Riak S2 (an object storage system), all built on a common code foundation. The company offers both open source and commercially licensed versions with enterprise support and professional services.

Product overview

Basho Technologies offers a portfolio of distributed NoSQL database products built on a common code foundation with true multi-model support. The core offerings include Riak KV (flexible key-value data model for web-scale applications), Riak TS (time series optimized for IoT use cases), and Riak S2 (object storage). All products share a common architecture focused on unmatched resiliency, data accuracy, and massive scale on commodity hardware. Riak KV supports unstructured use cases including user data, session management, and profile data, while Riak TS is purpose-built for time series and IoT data. Riak Explorer provides supplementary browsing and admin capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Riak KV: Flexible key-value data model for web scale profile and session management, real-time big data, catalog, content management, customer 360, digital messaging, and more use cases.
• Riak TS
• Riak S2

Products and services

• Riak KV Distributed NoSQL key-value database optimized for web-scale applications including profile and session management, real-time big data, catalog, content management, customer 360, and digital messaging.
• Riak TS Distributed NoSQL time series database optimized for IoT and time series data use cases, now available as open source software.
• Riak S2 Object storage solution built on Riak technology for large-scale data storage needs including large files and multimedia content.
• Riak Explorer Open source tool providing browsing and administrative capabilities for Riak clusters, available on GitHub.

Quantifiable outcome

• 250,000+ operations per second with sub-millisecond response times and rock solid stability
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aerospike: High-performance distributed NoSQL key-value store optimized for sub-millisecond latency at scale — closely mirrors Riak's positioning on speed, scale, and operational efficiency for enterprise real-time workloads.
• ScyllaDB: Open-source NoSQL database compatible with Cassandra API, focused on extreme low-latency and high throughput. Competes with Basho on the same distributed, low-latency, scale-out NoSQL use cases.
• MongoDB: The leading NoSQL document database company. Directly comparable to Basho as a horizontally scalable, open-core NoSQL vendor serving modern web and enterprise applications with a similar open-source-plus-commercial subscription model.
• Timescale: Time series database built on PostgreSQL, focused on IoT and observability workloads. A direct competitor to Riak TS in the time-series database segment.
• Couchbase: Distributed NoSQL document/key-value database with a similar profile to Basho — enterprise-focused, open-source roots, distributed architecture, and subscription/support commercial model.
• MinIO: Open-source high-performance object storage system. Directly comparable to Riak S2 for scalable object storage use cases, with similar open-source-plus-commercial-support business model.
• InfluxDB (InfluxData): Leading purpose-built time series database — directly comparable to Riak TS for IoT and time-series workloads, with a similar open-source-plus-commercial monetization model.
• Redis (Redis Ltd.): In-memory NoSQL key-value store used by many of the same enterprise customers (e.g., Tapjoy, Uber) for caching and primary data. Direct overlap with Riak KV on key-value workloads and enterprise pricing/subscription model.
• DataStax (Cassandra): Commercial sponsor of Apache Cassandra, a widely deployed distributed NoSQL database. Competes head-to-head with Riak in the distributed, highly available key-value/wide-column NoSQL segment for web-scale and enterprise workloads.

Broad incumbents

• Amazon DynamoDB: Managed NoSQL key-value/document cloud service from AWS. Overlaps with Riak KV on distributed key-value workloads, with the added advantage of being a fully managed cloud-native service tightly integrated into the AWS ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/basho
• Facebookfacebook.com/bashoriak
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/basho-technologies-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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