This might be overdoing things a bit. FoundationDB was a rigorously tested KV store with strong consistency (uncommon for such a product). Yes, that talk from StrangeLoop was great, but there&#x27;s two common misconceptions here:<p>(What follows is my opinion &#x2F; guesswork as a VoltDB employee)<p>1. FoundationDB wasn&#x27;t killed by Apple; it was rescued by Apple. The product couldn&#x27;t compete on just being a KV store and wasn&#x27;t doing well in the market. Apple saw a very bright and now experienced team and scooped them up for a song.<p>2. Before this happened, FoundationDB realized they needed a way to query their system to compete, so they bought Akiban (a failing SQL db company) to add SQL to their system. But they assumed they could do this without deep integration, which was wrong. They added a SQL &quot;layer&quot; on top of the KV store and it was way to slow to be practical. The benchmarks they published were embarrassing.<p>I wrote a blog post about this:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voltdb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-store-not-enough" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voltdb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-s...</a><p>SUMMARY
FoundationDB: Great Testing, Great Engineering, Not particularly good product...