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Does anyone know of cool things built with fdb? I’ve been aware of it for a while and it seems very cool but I haven’t seen a lot of details about how folks are

Does anyone know of cool things built with fdb? I’ve been aware of it for a while and it seems very cool but I haven’t seen a lot of details about how folks are using it.

pjd7 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework-to-load-and-update-over-ten-billion-vertex-graphs-with-performance-and-consistency/ https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework... It looks like people are using it to build graph related models on it. I am looking at it & considering doing something similar for graph data sets. As well as a transactionally safe key value store to store roaring bitmaps.
bpicolo 1y ago
Apple uses it for CloudKit. I'd say that's pretty cool. Snowflake uses it for their metadata layer. Datadog uses it for their system called Husky (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky/ https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky...)
pstuart 1y ago
An abandoned project I'd love to see resurrected is SQLite on fdb: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
jwr 1y ago
I am moving my SaaS from RethinkDB to FoundationDB. It's a long-term project that needs to be done very carefully (thousands of people using the app), but the rewards are significant. Thanks to FoundationDB versionstamps, I'll be able to replace changefeeds with polling, simplifying the system, and also make things much faster along the way. The consistency guarantees are phenomenal and writing software is much easier when you have strict serializability. Most people do not appreciate this because they do not understand the anomalies that you can get without strict serializable consistency.
- withinboredom 1y ago
  Also in this same exact boat.
mannyv 1y ago
From what I understand one of the big IP ad tracking services (El Toro) is built on FoundationDB.
jstimps 1y ago
ecto_foundationdb makes it easy to use FDB with Elixir, providing indexes, on-line migrations, and multitenancy. https://github.com/foundationdb-beam/ecto_foundationdb https://github.com/foundationdb-beam/ecto_foundationdb I use it as the DB layer for LiveSecret. https://github.com/jessestimpson/livesecret https://github.com/jessestimpson/livesecret
Quarrel 1y ago
I'm excited by the idea of pgfdb*. I think it could be a great. postgres, with foundation replacing the transaction system to provide all the benefits that brings, horizontal scalability, automatic sharding, replication, and fault tolerance, and performance. foundationdb is 20+ years ahead of postgres in terms of distributed transaction theory. * https://github.com/fabianlindfors/pgfdb https://github.com/fabianlindfors/pgfdb
redman25 1y ago
Arroyo uses it for their streaming database. Think streaming stateful aggregations. It’s pretty cool tech. Looks like they were recently acquired by cloudflare.
olavgg 1y ago
Cognite built their dataplatform with foundationdb.

Does anyone know of cool things built with fdb? I’ve been aware of it for a while and it seems very cool but I haven’t seen a lot of details about how folks are using it.

pjd7 1y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFTBO67uU https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework-to-load-and-update-over-ten-billion-vertex-graphs-with-performance-and-consistency/ https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/graphload-a-framework... It looks like people are using it to build graph related models on it. I am looking at it & considering doing something similar for graph data sets. As well as a transactionally safe key value store to store roaring bitmaps.

bpicolo 1y ago

Apple uses it for CloudKit. I'd say that's pretty cool. Snowflake uses it for their metadata layer. Datadog uses it for their system called Husky (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky/ https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky...)

pstuart 1y ago

An abandoned project I'd love to see resurrected is SQLite on fdb: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

jwr 1y ago

I am moving my SaaS from RethinkDB to FoundationDB. It's a long-term project that needs to be done very carefully (thousands of people using the app), but the rewards are significant. Thanks to FoundationDB versionstamps, I'll be able to replace changefeeds with polling, simplifying the system, and also make things much faster along the way. The consistency guarantees are phenomenal and writing software is much easier when you have strict serializability. Most people do not appreciate this because they do not understand the anomalies that you can get without strict serializable consistency.

withinboredom 1y ago
Also in this same exact boat.

mannyv 1y ago

From what I understand one of the big IP ad tracking services (El Toro) is built on FoundationDB.

jstimps 1y ago

ecto_foundationdb makes it easy to use FDB with Elixir, providing indexes, on-line migrations, and multitenancy. https://github.com/foundationdb-beam/ecto_foundationdb https://github.com/foundationdb-beam/ecto_foundationdb I use it as the DB layer for LiveSecret. https://github.com/jessestimpson/livesecret https://github.com/jessestimpson/livesecret

Quarrel 1y ago

I'm excited by the idea of pgfdb*. I think it could be a great. postgres, with foundation replacing the transaction system to provide all the benefits that brings, horizontal scalability, automatic sharding, replication, and fault tolerance, and performance. foundationdb is 20+ years ahead of postgres in terms of distributed transaction theory. * https://github.com/fabianlindfors/pgfdb https://github.com/fabianlindfors/pgfdb

redman25 1y ago

Arroyo uses it for their streaming database. Think streaming stateful aggregations. It’s pretty cool tech. Looks like they were recently acquired by cloudflare.

olavgg 1y ago

Cognite built their dataplatform with foundationdb.