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> Like other NoSQL databases, FoundationDB offered a way to build databases that spanned hundreds or thousands of different servers, often housed in geographically distant data centers.

What?

> FoundationDB promised a way to provide scalability without sacrificing performance

Wait, what?

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I understand that FoundationDB's main point of differentiation from other NoSQL document DBs was support for transactional integrity across documents. Others (i.e. all open-source options, AFAIK) support atomic transactions only on a single document.

Sounds like the author had been told this, didn't quite get it, and mumbled this stuff instead.

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