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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by manigandham on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:02PM (#16881878)
Will any of these layers on top be open-sourced? FDB itself is rather low-level and will result in duplicate efforts building another SQL/data layer.

It's rather interesting to see how many companies have been using FoundationDB silently this whole time...

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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by ashishnm on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:25AM (#16882341)
To be clear we haven't built a SQL layer on top of FDB. It's a metadata store for us where we store objects. We haven't decided whether to open source the object-mapping layer. It's plausible, and if we do it will take some work. But we are certain to contribute to the FDB community. So do keep an eye out.
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