I see a lot of snarky comments (maybe that has to do with the journalism of the article), but my recollection of FoundationDB is that it <i>is</i> interesting. It's trying to tackle the problem of enabling ACID, while also not being SQL-dialect oriented, putting it in a somewhat unique part of the overall landscape.<p>So, if you are put off by TechCrunch's journalism, I don't know of a great reason to let that spill over into one's gut assessment FoundationDB. Here is a link to previous discussion, where many people try to poke holes into the tradeoffs being made for FoundationDB: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294719" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294719</a><p>Perhaps the company needs to work to reign in some of the language, it seems like the last discussion revolved around some aspects of the system that tripped a lot of skepticism-detectors (or at least "glaring caveat-omission" detectors) last time also.
<p><pre><code> FoundationDB can scale once across a distributed
infrastructure. That’s opposed to SQL database
technology has to be installed on individual servers.
</code></pre>
Can anyone explain?
<i>The result, they say, is an infinitely scalable database that goes beyond what most NoSQL databases offer.</i><p>No wonder NoSQL gets so much flake.
I've got a car that runs on water. No, really. The thing is, these other cars, they just decide to run on gas. Totally ignoring the potential of water power. Of course this design is really fundamental to the way cars will be built in the future, you could call it a foundation of a new paradigm for cars-- all the performance of a gas car, without all the hassle and expense- not to mention pollution-- of gasoline. Just simple pure water.<p>Don't believe me? You shouldn't. The question is, how can we take TechCrunch seriously when they do not even ask the basic questions?<p>Edit:
Seriously, they say its distributed but ACID compiant. Ok, how do you do that? This violates the CAP theorem. How do they handle partitions? Without answering this, the article is as meaningless as an announcement of a water powered car.