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FoundationDB adheres to the highest level of consistency (linearizability) and, unlike Spanner or its derivatives, does not rely on clocks to achieve this. I'm
by Dave_Rosenthal 8y ago
FoundationDB adheres to the highest level of consistency (linearizability) and, unlike Spanner or its derivatives, does not rely on clocks to achieve this.
I'm surprised FoundationDB is not mentioned in the article. Maybe it didn't help the author make his point, but it is both the most mature of the new breed of ACID+noSQL databases and completely free/open source.
- riku_iki 8y agoOne reason is may be because it is not 'SQL' DB, which is probably prerequisite for NewSQL category.
- grogers 8y agoAccording to their docs, FoundationDB only provides serializable isolation, so it isn't the same as the others in the post which offer strict serializable isolation (multi-key version of linearizability). Without strong clocks you can't have strict serializablity and scale beyond a single log (but one log can get you pretty damn far). TBH most people probably only need serializable transactions anyway. https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/developer-guide.html#transactions-in-foundationdb https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/developer-guide.html#tr...
- ryanworl 8y agoWhile that documentation isn’t wrong, FoundationDB also provides external consistency. https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/keyspace-partitions-performance/168/7 https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/keyspace-partitions-perfor...