Thank you to all who attended the webinar yesterday. The turnout was great, and the questions at the end were also very thoughtful. Since I didn’t get to answer very many, I’ve reviewed all of the questions below, in no particular order.

December 2, 2010 In the last two weeks, Basho has been fortunate to sign up some pretty cool clients. Considering we are a young company, that a database is among the stickiest pieces of software and therefore decisions to deploy something new are undertaken with caution, and that we have spent approximately $7,000 on marketing [...]

A short while ago I made it known on the Riak Mailing list that the Basho Dev team was working on getting “more resources out the door to help the community better use Riak.” Today we are pleased to announce that Riak Function Contrib, one of these resources, is now live and awaiting your usage and code contributions.

December 1, 2010 Moving applications to Riak involves a number of changes from the status quo of RDBMS systems, one of which is taking greater control over your schema design. You’ll have questions like: How do you structure data when you don’t have tables and foreign keys? When should you denormalize, add links, or create MapReduce queries? Where will Riak [...]

November 30, 2010 We are pleased to announce Basho is looking for developers to work on Riak and our next generation of products. We have an awesome community that sustains us with hard work and positivity, we have a great group of people, and we have a lot of paying clients. We are unconventional in some [...]

November 17, 2010 The next release of Riak will include two new Erlang/OTP applications: riak_err and cluster_info. The riak_err application will improve Riak’s runtime robustness by strictly limiting the amount of RAM that is used while processing event log messages. The cluster_info application will assist troubleshooting by automatically gathering lots of environment, configuration, and runtime statistics data into a single file. Wait [...]

November 15, 2010 Oracle didn’t (and can’t) take away your open source software. A few weeks ago Oracle caused a lot of confusion when they changed the makeup of the MySQL product line, including a “MySQL Classic Edition” version that does not cost money and does not include InnoDB. That combination in the product chart made many people [...]

November 11, 2010 Things are moving incredibly fast in the NoSQL space. I am used to internet-fast — helping bring on 300 customers in a year at Akamai; going from adult bulletin boards and leased lines to hosting sites for twenty percent of the Fortune 500 at Digex (Verizon Business) in eighteen months. I have [...]

November 11, 2010 We announced recently on the Riak Mailing List that Basho was switching to git and GitHub for development of Riak and all other Basho software. As stated in that linked email, we did this primarily for reasons pertaining to community involvement in the development of Riak. The explanation on the Mailing List was [...]

October 26, 2010 Basho is hosting one event this week and participating in another. Here are the details to make sure everyone is up to speed: A NOSQL Evening in Palo Alto Tonight there will be a special edition of the Silicon Valley NoSQL Meetup, billed as “A NOSQL Evening in Palo Alto.” Why do [...]