FoundationDB was re-released as open source a couple of years ago.
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
by imoverclocked on Thursday July 22, 2021 @03:09PM
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AFAIK, FoundationDB is alive and well. What makes you think it's killed?
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
by capableweb on Thursday July 22, 2021 @03:25PM
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It was acquired by a huge company that sometimes kills products. Shortly after the acquisition, the downloads were removed from the website. It did go open source "recently" though which made it longer lasting, but I'd understand if someone would think it was dead by now.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 - Apple Acquires FoundationDB - March 24, 2015
- Comparison between March 25 and March 14, 2015 - https://web.archive.org/web/20150314231702/https://foundatio... (14th March) > https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003252/https://foundatio... (25th March)
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
It is designed from the ground-up to be globally distributed. Some other databases like FoundationDB (now owned and killed? by Apple) and CockroachDB were designed to scale across multiple datacenters.
Correction: FoundationDB is alive as open-source again, yay!