Hacker News Reader

Comment by dangoodmanUT | Hacker News Reader

FDB is wildly underrated. Best DB atm

FondationDB is such an incredible resource, but it’s so hard to access for the general public. It’s no wonder so few people know about it. I’ve always thought that if there were easier ways to interact with it, or some dev-friendly layers built on top (or public) it would become way more popular. it has shown how well it scales with Apple and snowflake, but is not an obvious choice for non-internet scale applications.

If you don't know about FDB; there's an amazing video about how they test it that really got me into learning more:

https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=9g3hZogBq3Ou25xZ

Yeah, this is the bit for me. We have almost no good OSS layers for folks to "plug and play".

Its a bit of a vicious circle - because there is low exposure, no one is building those layers. Because no one is building the layers, there is no exposure.

If you're interested in a layer compatible with Elixir's Ecto, please take a look at the EctoFoundationDB adapter:

https://github.com/foundationdb-beam/ecto_foundationdb

https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_foundationdb

They are developing this simulation concept as a platform: https://antithesis.com/

Surprised no one has built a dynamodb compatible api yet. Wouldn’t be that difficult. Dynamodb actually has similar constraints already

Maybe there aren't too many itches left to scratch?

Between Dynamodb, Cassandra, and Scylla seems like that problem set is somewhat a solved problem? I know those products continue to move forward, but they all work really well at this point and solve the fundamental problem to a good degree.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com