Basho Technologies, Inc | 2,673 followers on LinkedIn. Basho Technologies is the creator and developer of Riak, an open-source distributed database that provides extreme high-availability, fault-tolerance, and operational simplicity. Riak has rapidly gained adoption throughout the Fortune 100 and has become foundational to many of the world’s fastest-growing Web-based, mobile and social networking applications. In early 2008, Basho founders were inspired by the tenets outlined in the Amazon Dynamo paper.