7 engineers on Hacker News describe using FoundationDB first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched to FoundationDB, and it's been great so far.”
endorse · production · quettabit · 2025-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated to FDB and got almost x100 improvement in latency/performance. And unlike SQL-code that was very carefully crafted we can do nasty things.”
endorse · production · ex3ndr · 2018-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“simply starting fdbmonitor on localhost with two processes and then starting fdbcli, it takes 5.6 seconds to get a connection.”
regret · personal · Meai · 2018-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ultimately ended up just using lmdb because I didn't want to deal with fdb's limitations and operational unknowns.”
regret · personal · realreality · 2018-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using FoundationDB in production for about 10 months now. It's really been a game changer for us.”
endorse · production · 0.8 yr · jrallison · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've quite literally spent the last month trying to read, digest, and apply the above to a record layer I'm writing for FoundationDB.”
neutral · personal · rubyn00bie · 2019-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm not sure if "baroque" is a good qualifier for FDB.”
neutral · production · alexandre_m · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?