Do you have something to back that up? This to me reads like you imply that Elasticsearch does not work and scale.
It's definitely interesting but I'm cautious. The track record for FoundationDB and Apple has not been great here. IIRC they acquired the company and took the software offline leaving people in the rain?
Could this be like it happened with Cassandra at Facebook where they dropped the code and then more or less stopped contributing?
Also I haven't seen many contributions from Apple to open-source projects like Hadoop etc. in the past few years. Looking for "@apple.com" email addresses in the mailing lists doesn't yield a lot of results. I understand that this is a different team and that people might use different E-Mail addresses and so on.
In general I'm also always cautious (but open-minded) when there's lots of enthusiasm and there seems to be no downside. I'm sure FoundationDB has its dirty little secrets and it would be great to know what those are.