FoundationDB

FoundationDB: Distributed Database for Large Data Volumes

A distributed database designed for handling large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers, FoundationDB scales organically and supports ACID transactions with high performance and reliability.

What is FoundationDB?

FoundationDB is an open source, distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers. Some key features of FoundationDB include:

• Scalability - It is designed to scale organically as more servers are added. It aims to run efficiently across hundreds of servers.
• High performance - FoundationDB aims for high throughput and low latency for transactions, making it suitable for real-time applications.
• ACID compliance - All transactions are ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliant, ensuring data integrity.
• Fault tolerance - It automatically handles failover, redistributing data across remaining cluster nodes.
• Open source - Released under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Key-value store - Data model is simple key-value pairs that can support complex data structures.
• Multi-language APIs - Supports languages like Python, Java, Go to integrate with applications.

FoundationDB aims to provide scalable ACID transactions combined with high reliability. Its distributed nature across commodity servers allows it to handle large workloads and datasets efficiently. The simple key-value interface abstracts away complexity for developers building applications.

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