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FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by throwaway5752 » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

jared2501 wrote: post #51

throwaway5752 wrote: post #2

Anyone know how they're using it at Apple vs other distributed databases?

A mate of mine is ex-apple and said they use it for icloud.

Yes, but I understand they use Cassandra heavily https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-secret-nosql-sau...), and I was curious about why they use FoundationDB in some settings vs Cassandra in others. I can imagine a few good technical reasons to use one or the other depending on the context, but figured I'd ask in case anyone knew.

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by monstrado » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 3:48 PM UTC

th1nkdifferent wrote: post #60

monstrado wrote: post #3

Congrats to the team on the release. Using FoundationDB has been one of the most rock solid NoSQL experiences I've ever had, and I've used a lot. After having a few months to hammer my cluster with fairly low level atomic operations, I can confidently say this thing holds up to pretty much anything you want to throw at it. Coming from the land of HBase and DynamoDB, It's ability to automatically (and intelligently) r…

Could you add some details about your scale?

Hey, I've written some comments regarding the use case in the past you can see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18305446

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