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Well, for that the comparative features needs to be clearly laid out. It solves a problem that others have not solved. Which problem is that? And how better do
by abhishekjha 3y ago
Well, for that the comparative features needs to be clearly laid out.
It solves a problem that others have not solved. Which problem is that? And how better does it work than whatever there was?
- mst 3y agoIt's an analysis of a paper, not a feature checklist, so the article is for people who want to understand more about how FoundationDB works rather than trying to provide a "which system should I use" explanation. Though "super reliable distributed database presenting a single logical shard to client code" is a class of system for which I don't think there's anything else even close out there, and I suspect generally if that's something you -need- then you'll already know that.
- qaq 3y agoIt's a highly scalable (as in powers iCloud services with billion users) distributed transactional KV store. It's owned by Apple and mostly developed by Apple and Snowflake.