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I was wondering who else uses FDB beyond Apple and Snowflake. Found that CouchDB is rewriting their storage layer to use FoundationDB for their v4 release. That said I couldn’t find much info on progress or release dates.

https://speakerdeck.com/wohali/couchdb-4-dot-0-1-plus-2-equa...

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IBM was funding that work and just recently announced that they no longer want to go ahead with the couchdb-fdb implementation and will refocus their support toward V3 related tasks.

I'm not sure of their reasons but Apple recently backed away from things like providing windows fdb binaries and had some problems with their foundation site during the jlog incident that may have been interpreted as a lack of corporate commitment toward costs like hosting for the FOSS community, so IBM may have decided there was too much risk in having this dependency.

That's disappointing. CouchDB itself has also dropped off the radar these days which may have been a consideration too in terms of funding ROI.

Yeah, though it's hard to say which parts matter to IBM's bottom line since in terms of cloud DB sales they must be relying more on the trapped audience "not getting fired for choosing IBM" than on upsell to developers who try couchdb.

Really around 2.0 things like pouchDB were drowned out by a commercially funded choices and things more directly sponsored to work with each of the frameworks.

Wavefront is also using hit at scale.

From the list of talks at the 2019 FDB Summit, it also seems to be used at Segment, eBay and Uber

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