FoundationDB
A distributed ordered key-value store with ACID transactions, used as a foundation for higher-level databases. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Month
- November 2026
- Votes
- 0
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Apple and the FoundationDB community
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2013
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.foundationdb.org
- Written in
- C++ (Flow)
- Data model
- Key-value
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- Key-value API
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Flexible
- Deployment
- Distributed cluster
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: moderate (Distributed transaction commit on writes); Read: fast (Ordered key lookups and range scans); Update: moderate (Optimistic transactions and atomic operations); Delete: fast (Transactional clears of individual keys or key ranges)