Meaning projects that use the database for their backend are faster and less expensive to maintain.įoundationDB was originally founded in 2009 by Dave Rosenthal, Dave Scherer and Nick Lavezzo with the goal of making a NoSQL database that was ACID compliant, a set of properties for databases that are designed to guarantee the integrity of data even when errors occur.Īpple acquired the company in early 2015 and has probably been using it for their iCloud services for the past couple of years. The database system is focused on performance, scalability and fault-tolerance.
FoundationDB is described as “a distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers”.
Apple has just released a new open source project on Github.
