Dataloop.IO selects Basho

Basho Technologies says that Dataloop.IO, the fast-growing provider of infrastructure monitoring software for online services, has chosen Riak to underpin its metric-crunching cloud monitoring solution. With architecture required to scale to millions of metrics being generated every minute, Dataloop.IO selected Riak to support the analysis, visualisation and interrogation of metrics as they arrive in real-time.

Launched in late 2013, Dataloop.IO has already worked alongside some of the largest online services, including Rackspace, Blinkbox and Hive Home from British Gas, to develop its monitoring software. The software Dataloop.IO provides is an absolute necessity for services needing to ensure that infrastructure issues are identified, treated early and do not negatively impact users, which might prove detrimental to a company’s brand or revenue stream. Following the company’s launch, the Dataloop.IO team quickly identified the need for a reliable, flexible distributed database that would enable them to manage data quickly and efficiently.

“Monitoring is really a Big Data problem,” said Colin Hemmings, co-founder and chief architect of Dataloop.IO. “The challenge for our service is being able to collect, process, store and visualise billions of metrics every minute from thousands of customers. As a start-up offering these monitoring services it is vitally important Dataloop.IO works with a platform able to cope with the huge demand being placed upon it. Any losses in data or disruptions to the service would be hugely damaging to our growing reputation. Riak has given us exactly what we need.”

Basho developed Riak to offer businesses a highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed database that ensures ultra-low-latency performance at any scale. Today, Riak is used by thousands of companies around the world. Working with Dataloop.IO, Riak hosts the huge amount of time-series data required, in addition to providing memory backing to prevent data-loss and enabling the company to manage its complex event processing system. Riak’s scalability has proved invaluable, with the platform scaling up or down depending on the number of customers and servers, enabling Dataloop.IO to grow its client-base without impacting performance.

“The Basho Riak database is perfect for companies like Dataloop.IO looking to expand already impressive client portfolios,” said Manu Marchal, managing director of Basho, EMEA. “The service provided by Dataloop.IO is fast-becoming a necessity for organisations operating online, with even the slightest drop in performance proving costly from both a brand and financial perspective. Riak is more than capable of supporting the huge quantity of data and metrics being processed by Dataloop.IO, and we look forward to supporting its continued success and growth.”