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Foundation is fundamental to iCloud at Apple, and is _something_ at Snowflake, among a few others. Recently DeepSeek used it for https://github.com/deepseek-ai/
by fidotron 1y ago
Foundation is fundamental to iCloud at Apple, and is _something_ at Snowflake, among a few others. Recently DeepSeek used it for https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS "The Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) is a high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads."
I don't think that there's anything else quite the same, partly because it has some real oddities that manifest because of things like the transaction time limits. At Apple they worked around some of this with https://www.foundationdb.org/files/QuiCK.pdf https://www.foundationdb.org/files/QuiCK.pdf
- senderista 1y agoSnowflake uses FoundationDB for their metadata store and...something else which isn't public.
- redwood 1y agoHmm? A secret weapon to slow down Databricks?
- parkerhiggins 1y agoya here's the link explaining the metadata store: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward/ https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-sn...
- frakkingcylons 1y agoTigris (an object storage provider, I have no affiliation) also uses FoundationDB for storing metadata: https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/concepts/architecture/#foundationdb https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/concepts/architecture/#found...