CAMBRIDGE, MA, According to published reports, data storage firm Basho Technologies Inc. has raised a $5 million round, its second fundraise announced this year. Past investors in Basho have included private equity firm Georgetown Partners and Danish systems integrator Trifork AS.

Basho Technologies, Inc. was founded in January 2008 by a core group of Software Architects, Engineers and Executives from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM). Basho is the developer of Riak, the leading distributed database that delivers elastic scalability, high performance, high reliability, and high availability with a reduced total cost of operations (TCO).

Applications built using Riak remain both read- and write-available under almost any operational condition, with no additional intervention required. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented read- and write-availability to enterprise, web, and mobile applications.

Basho is privately funded, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, CA and Reston, VA.