FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in

To add to the list in TFA, Rust bindings are here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;foundationdb-rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;foundationdb-rs</a>

I’m curious how they plan to do continuous integration. The Apple hardware-only clause of the macOS SDK license agreement really crimps the options for CI, especially for open source projects with limited budget. Travis is a godsend, but there are startup latency and capacity issues there even in the paid tier. Apple has made major contributions to open source, as evidenced by FoundationDB here, LLVM, WebKit, and other projects. But they no longer make servers, and the fallback — Mac mini — is on life support, which puts projects and service providers who need to treat macOS as a first-class target in a real bind. Even something limited like the IE Edge and Visual Studio images Microsoft provides would be a huge boost.

I&#x27;d like to see the ANSI SQL layer open-sourced, and some benchmarks.

It&#x27;s even been ported and packaged for FreeBSD: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshports.org&#x2F;databases&#x2F;foundationdb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshports.org&#x2F;databases&#x2F;foundationdb&#x2F;</a>

Hoping someone makes a Swift interface, given this is coming from Apple, one would hope there would be one.

I am very curious on what Apple uses as the server OS in its datacenters. Do they use OSX or do they use Linux &#x2F; FreeBSD?

Probably a silly question, but does someone running it in production already? I mean not Apple, but someone from community.

Is there any apache Spark foundationDB integration, like drivers?

Another highlight: FoundationDB is in nixpkgs unstable!

Could somebody clarify the license? I was excited this was Open Source, but then some people say you are only allowed to run it on MacOS? How can that be?<p>Also, how does FoundationDB compare (in general, and in performance) to:<p>- CockroachDB (competitor) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cockroachlabs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2-dot-0-perf-strides&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cockroachlabs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2-dot-0-perf-strides&#x2F;</a><p>- Redis (competitor) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redis.io&#x2F;topics&#x2F;benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redis.io&#x2F;topics&#x2F;benchmarks</a><p>- GUN (ours) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amark&#x2F;gun&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2GB-Atom-CPU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amark&#x2F;gun&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2...</a><p>- Fauna (competitor) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fauna.com&#x2F;enterprise#Scalability" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fauna.com&#x2F;enterprise#Scalability</a><p>- VoltDB (competitor) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.voltdb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;02&#x2F;comparing-fast-data-performance-a-comparison-of-voltdb-and-cassandra-benchmarks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.voltdb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;02&#x2F;comparing-fast-data-p...</a><p>- RocksDB (competitor) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;rocksdb&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;performance-benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;rocksdb&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;performance-benchma...</a><p>Is the the big boom in FoundationDB just that it is &quot;now Open Source&quot;, or that Apple vetted it (why didn&#x27;t they keep it closed source?), or is there something distinctly unique about FoundationDB that it surpasses a bunch of other tried and true systems?