"I wanted a house, but I got a pile of drywall and 2x4 framing studs." This is a totally legitimate complaint about FoundationDB, which is designed specificall

"I wanted a house, but I got a pile of drywall and 2x4 framing studs." This is a totally legitimate complaint about FoundationDB, which is designed specifically to be, well, a foundation rather than a house. If you try to live in just a foundation you are going to find it modestly inconvenient. (But try building a house on top of another house and you will really regret it!) The solution is of course to use a higher level database or databases suitable to your needs which are built on FDB, and drop down to the key value level only for your stickiest problems. Unfortunately Apple didn't release any such to the public so far. So I hope the community is up to the job of building a few :-)