Basho Technologies Inc., the company that develops the NoSQL-based Riak KV database, is teaming up with Cisco Systems Ltd. to build a framework that’ll allow Riak KV to run on Apache Mesos, the open-source cluster manager that lets admins isolate and share resources across distributed applications and frameworks.

By integrating Mesos with Riak, the data center infrastructure underlying the Riak KV instances becomes fully automated. This will allow enterprises to deploy distributed data services at a global scale to support Big Data and Internet of Things applications, while ensuring cloud resources are efficiently utilized.

Dave McCrory, CTO at Basho, explained that this will help organizations using traditional architectures that are struggling to implement distributed apps and data services.

“By combining Basho’s Riak KV with Mesos, we’re able to deliver an easy-to-deploy platform for real-time data processing,” McCrory said. “We thereby enable a new class of modern data center developers who can break free of infrastructure restraints and give rise to a whole new class of hyper-scale applications.”

The integration of Mesos with Riak KV means that users will no longer have to estimate the infrastructure requirements of Riak nodes, Basho said. Riak KV uses its own orchestration tools to manage the data tier, and now Mesos can manage the underlying infrastructure, giving enterprise access to an easily scalabille distributed data platform. Meanwhile, Mesos’ ability to aggregate and re-aggregate resources for and from Riak delivers what Basho calls “true ‘push button’ scale up/scale down”. These scale up/scale down events can be automated by writing scripts, allowing enterprises to auto-scale global, multi-data center databases.

“Enabling Riak KV with Mesos on Intercloud, we can seamlessly and efficiently manage the cloud resources required by a globally scalable NoSQL database, allowing us to provide the back-end for large-scale data processing, web, mobile and IoT applications,” Ken Owens, CTO for Cisco Intercloud Services, said in a statement. “This integration will accelerate developers’ ability to create innovative new cloud services for the Intercloud — the globally connected network of clouds Cisco is building with its partners, which will offer cloud services to help customers capture the multitude of opportunities created by the Internet of Everything (IoE).”

Basho said it’s currently developing an open-source integration with Mesos that it plans to commercialize around a supported enterprise platform. In addition, Basho will incorporate Mesos’ resource management capabilities into the Basho Data Platform. The latter solution was released last May, and integrates Riak KV with Basho’s Riak S2 object storage platform, Apache Spark for in-memory analytics, Apache Solr for enhance querying capabilities and Redis for increased performance.

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