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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

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Jingyu Zhou *
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Meng Xu
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Alexander Shraer
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Bala Namasivayam
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Alex Miller
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Evan Tschannen
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Steve Atherton
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Andrew J. Beamon
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Rusty Sears
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John Leach
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Dave Rosenthal
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Xin Dong
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Will Wilson
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Ben Collins
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David Scherer
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Alec Grieser
刘扬 (Yang Liu)
A
Alvin Moore
B
Bhaskar Muppana
X
Xiaoge Su
V
Vishesh Yadav
DOI:10.1145/3592838delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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FoundationDB is an open-source transactional key-value store created more than 10 years ago. It is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the power of ACID transactions. FoundationDB adopts an unbundled architecture that decouples an in-memory transaction management system, a distributed storage system, and a built-in distributed configuration system. Each sub-system can be independently provisioned and configured to achieve scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance. FoundationDB includes a deterministic simulation framework, used to test every new feature under a myriad of possible faults. This rigorous testing makes FoundationDB extremely stable and allows developers to introduce and release new features in a rapid cadence. FoundationDB offers a minimal and carefully chosen feature set, which has enabled a range of disparate systems to be built as layers on top. FoundationDB is the underpinning of cloud infrastructure at Apple, Snowflake, and other companies, due to its consistency, robustness, and availability for storing user data, system metadata and configuration, and other critical information.

Journal

Communications of the ACM cover
Communications of the ACM
IF:
12.2
Papers:
1.2W
Citations:
3.7W

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Apple Inc
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292
Papers: 162
Citations: 2