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akavel on Jan 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: FoundationDB Record Layer

Can someone please ELI5/executive summary to me what are the benefits of FoundationDB? Assuming I know the basics of PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch? I see some hype around it, but I can't understand what's the breakthrough. As a helping question: can you maybe try to tell me who are the expected users of it, vs. PSQL, ES? Or, when I should choose it over them? Also, what are its disadvantages? (I suspect bigger complexity, and bigger cost/worse effectiveness at small scale?) TIA!

dominotw on Jan 15, 2019 [–]

Its a distributed acid k/v layer that other models can be built on top of.

So you can build PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch on top of the foundationDB.

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