FoundationDB
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11recommend
0warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“we use FDB as our metadata store which is the sort of workload it is really good at”
Tigris founderon “Object storage is all you need”
“should read the FoundationDB data modeling guide”
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“I think FoundationDB has that crown.”
“I strongly recommend poking around with Foundation for this”
“very few can guarantee Strict Serializability in a distributed setting, like FoundationDB does.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Amazon DynamoDBWho recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“If you'd like an intro to FoundationDB, you can take a look at this blog post I wrote.”
author of the blog/projecton “Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment”
Threads where it came up
- Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB 9 mentions
- Object storage is all you need 2 mentions
- Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug 2 mentions
- Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment 2 mentions
- Solving the 1+N Query Problem 1 mention
- FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11 1 mention
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All comments 21
“We wrote a bit about using FoundationDB at Tigris”
“we use FDB as our metadata store which is the sort of workload it is really good at”
“should read the FoundationDB data modeling guide”
“I think FoundationDB has that crown.”
“to test FoundationDB”
“created a new unofficial resource for getting going with FoundationDB”
“I strongly recommend poking around with Foundation for this”
“FoundationDB claims 300,000 reads per second on a single core.”
“I just run it in docker compose”
“very few can guarantee Strict Serializability in a distributed setting, like FoundationDB does.”
“FoundationDB is used at Datadog [2].”
Maybe this? https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/swift-or-c-20-coroutine-which-is-the-future-of-fdb/4592/2
“Griffin Bank UK uses it for our entire system”
“I've never spent less time thinking about a data store that I use daily.”
“FoundationDB is awesome testing wise as they have deterministic simulation testing”
“Snowflake uses it: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowflake-metadata-forward/”
At s2.dev (a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data), we started with DynamoDB for our metadata store, but our access patterns kept running into per-partition throughput limits. We switched to FoundationDB, and it’s been great so far.
“has been extremely reliable and hands-off, administration-wise”
“Snowflake uses it as primary database for their metadata.”
“Tech: Clojure, FoundationDB, Bazel, CLJS, Svelte”
“FoundationDB”