State of the FoundationDB Community
summary
Project is eight months into open source with 56 contributors active on the core key‑value layer. A new document layer (12,000 LOC) exposes the MongoDB API and is production-ready as an easy on‑ramp. Experimental Redwood on‑disk versioning storage engine adds prefix compression and lets long read transactions scan consistent snapshots for analytics. Version 6 adds early multi‑region features: log routers, async logs to enable cross‑region HA and edge‑proximate reads; open developer meetings and benchmarking plans are starting.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Why FoundationDB
- 2:10Sequel Databases
- 3:55Data Models
- 6:05Community
- 7:22Projects
- 10:56Multiregion
- 12:36Open Developer Meetings
- 13:35Todays Talks
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