FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by davelester » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support
foundationdb.org

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by throwaway5752 » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 7:59 PM UTC

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

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by monstrado » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

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) repartition data based on write throughput has been an administrative breakthrough for me.

Looking forward to additional use cases I can throw at this beast of a system.

Kudos to you guys!

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by ryanworl » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

To anyone who is on the fence about putting FoundationDB into production (or at least evaluating it for their use cases), what is the number one thing you think is missing or you're worried about?

i.e.

- a SQL interface,

- pre-packaged data structure libraries,

- monitoring,

- limitations of FoundationDB itself,

- etc.

I'm working on a talk for the upcoming FoundationDB Summit and I'd love to address some real-world questions or issues people have.

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by whateveracct » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:19 PM UTC

ryanworl wrote: post #4

To anyone who is on the fence about putting FoundationDB into production (or at least evaluating it for their use cases), what is the number one thing you think is missing or you're worried about? i.e. - a SQL interface, - pre-packaged data structure libraries, - monitoring, - limitations of FoundationDB itself, - etc. I'm working on a talk for the upcoming FoundationDB Summit and I'd love to address some real-world…

> - monitoring,

What is the state of production monitoring of FoundationDB?

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by ryanworl » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:22 PM UTC

whateveracct wrote: post #5

ryanworl wrote: post #4

To anyone who is on the fence about putting FoundationDB into production (or at least evaluating it for their use cases), what is the number one thing you think is missing or you're worried about? i.e. - a SQL interface, - pre-packaged data structure libraries, - monitoring, - limitations of FoundationDB itself, - etc. I'm working on a talk for the upcoming FoundationDB Summit and I'd love to address some real-world…

> - monitoring, What is the state of production monitoring of FoundationDB?

FoundationDB exposes extremely detailed XML logs, as well as providing a status key you can scrape (\xff\xff/status/json) which exposes high level metrics about the entire cluster, including health, disk space, transaction rate, conflict rate, etc.

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by whateveracct » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:23 PM UTC

ryanworl wrote: post #6

whateveracct wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - monitoring, What is the state of production monitoring of FoundationDB?

FoundationDB exposes extremely detailed XML logs, as well as providing a status key you can scrape (\xff\xff/status/json) which exposes high level metrics about the entire cluster, including health, disk space, transaction rate, conflict rate, etc.

Thanks for the direction. I'll read up on it! FoundationDB seems very cool :)

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by tensor » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

ryanworl wrote: post #4

To anyone who is on the fence about putting FoundationDB into production (or at least evaluating it for their use cases), what is the number one thing you think is missing or you're worried about? i.e. - a SQL interface, - pre-packaged data structure libraries, - monitoring, - limitations of FoundationDB itself, - etc. I'm working on a talk for the upcoming FoundationDB Summit and I'd love to address some real-world…

We use Postgresql heavily and it's not really a viable replacement. Even if there were an SQL layer, I doubt it would be fully featured enough for our needs. We may evaluate FDB as a distributed cache, but haven't had the time.

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by the_duke » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

So, FoundationDB is a pretty low level distributed key-value store with transactions.

Most applications will need something higher level, like a SQL or document db frontend which could be built on top.

I'm curios what people have started using FoundationDB for. Any interesting stories to share?

Re: FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

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Post by DLA » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:33 PM UTC

ryanworl wrote: post #4

To anyone who is on the fence about putting FoundationDB into production (or at least evaluating it for their use cases), what is the number one thing you think is missing or you're worried about? i.e. - a SQL interface, - pre-packaged data structure libraries, - monitoring, - limitations of FoundationDB itself, - etc. I'm working on a talk for the upcoming FoundationDB Summit and I'd love to address some real-world…

+1 for a SQL layer/interface. Would massively increase utility of FDB.