In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
Honbasho Honbasho A is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958. Only "honbasho" results matter in determining promotion and relegation for "rikishi" (sumo wrestlers). Tournaments in general may be called "basho". A literal translation of "honbasho" is "main (or real) tournament". This term is used to distinguish these tournaments from display "basho" which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking. This type of sumo is often called "hana-sumo" (lit.
Basho Technologies into receivership. Basho Technologies Basho Technologies was a distributed systems company that developed a key-value NoSQL database technology, Riak, and an object storage system built upon the Riak platform, called Riak CS. Basho was the developer of Riak, an open source distributed database that offers high availability, fault tolerance, operation simplicity and scalability. Riak Enterprise was a commercial version of the database offered by Basho, the project's sponsor, with advanced multi-data center replication and enterprise support. Riak is a key value store system that can collect unstructured data and store it as objects in buckets that can then be queried.