{"id":655223,"date":"2013-04-30T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=640805"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:00:49","slug":"softlayer-adds-riak-database-service-to-its-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655223","title":{"rendered":"SoftLayer adds Riak database service to its mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

SoftLayer, <\/a>the cloud and hosting provider that you may or may not know, has been busy again. It’s added a hosted Riak database service to its portfolio.<\/p>\n

\"Basho<\/a>It worked with \u00a0Basho<\/a>, the\u00a0Cambridge, Mass. company behind both the Riak NoSQL distributed database and RiakCS \u00a0storage to do the integration work. \u00a0Both Riak and Riak Enterprise <\/a>now run\u00a0on SoftLayer’s pay-as-you-go infrastructure.<\/p>\n

As GigaOM’s Jordan Novet recently reported, Riak is used by companies including Github because it stores, replicates and retrieves data, even when multiple nodes fail.<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the two companies, the Riak solution makes it easier and faster for companies to “deploy scalable production-grade systems”at the click of a button.”<\/p>\n

In March, Basho made its\u00a0Riak CS distributed storage \u00a0available under the Apache 2 license<\/a>. Late last year, Softlayer worked with 10Gen to put the popular MongoDB database on its infrastructure<\/a> as an option. It’s clearly filling in its NoSQL check boxes here.<\/p>\n

Dallas-based SoftLayer’s been the subject of acquisition rumors lately. IBM is (or was) reportedly interested<\/a> in buying the company.<\/p>\n

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