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Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API by fidotron on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @07:43PM (#43921606)
Foundation is fundamental to iCloud at Apple, and is _something_ at Snowflake, among a few others. Recently DeepSeek used it for https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS "The Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) is a high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads."

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

Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API by senderista on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @08:04PM (#43921717)
Snowflake uses FoundationDB for their metadata store and...something else which isn't public.
Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API by redwood on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @09:36PM (#43922268)
Hmm? A secret weapon to slow down Databricks?
Re:Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API by parkerhiggins on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:06AM (#43922961)
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 (#43921933)
Tigris (an object storage provider, I have no affiliation) also uses FoundationDB for storing metadata:

https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/concepts/architecture/#found...