Basho Cofounder Takes New Direction
May 28, 2013
Antony Falco was a co-founder of the Basho Riak distributed open source database. However, he has changed directions and is working on a new project. Read about Falco’s latest project in the TechCrunch article, “Basho Co-Founder Raises $3M To Launch Orchestrate.io, A Twilio For Databases.”
The article begins:
“Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications. True Ventures led this initial round joined by Frontline Ventures and Resonant Venture Partners. Falco, who left Basho a few months ago, said Orchestrate.io solves the problems that developers face when building feature-rich applications. Often it means adding multiple databases for geo-spatial, time series or any number of other features.”
The article goes on to explain that the limits of scale of relational databases has led large tech companies like Google and Amazon to develop new types of databases for high-volume queries. Falco hopes his new service will add functionality by pulling the data through an API. He is using existing open source databases to build the project, including Riak.
This is an example of the type of creativity and innovation that flourishes in the open source community. Also in the open source field serving enterprises, LucidWorks focuses on another angle, enterprise search and Big Data. These elements are complimentary, with organizations finding that open source solutions often pair well together, adapting and scaling efficiently.
Emily Rae Aldridge, May 28, 2013
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