Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API
by senderista on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @08:04PM
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Snowflake uses FoundationDB for their metadata store and...something else which isn't public.
Hmm? A secret weapon to slow down Databricks?
Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API
by parkerhiggins on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:06AM
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ya here's the link explaining the metadata store: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-sn...
Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API
by frakkingcylons on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @08:45PM
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Tigris (an object storage provider, I have no affiliation) also uses FoundationDB for storing metadata:
https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/concepts/architecture/#found...
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