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Any plans on releasing an SQL-layer to allow querying FoundationDB using normal SQL? Would be nice with both SQL and ACID in the same database.
by JoelJacobson 14y ago
Any plans on releasing an SQL-layer to allow querying FoundationDB using normal SQL? Would be nice with both SQL and ACID in the same database.
- Dave_Rosenthal 14y agoNo plans, but that would be nice. Others like Clustrix and NuoDB are more directly targeting the distributed SQL database market. Often we describe FoundationDB's core to people as more of a "storage substrate" than a database. It is possible to build an efficient SQL database as a layer on top of that substrate. For example, SQLite4 is choosing a transactional ordered key-value abstraction for its internal storage engine (which exactly matches FoundationDB's API). Of course, a SQL database is a big project involving a lot more than just a storage engine!