It appears that distributed, SQL and NoSQL database engines are all the rage for extreme transaction processing or Big Data applications. Some of these systems trade distributed performance for ...

What is NoSQL, and why do you need it? By now, much has been written about the lower cost associated with running clusters of commodity servers. Much has also been written about the added flexibility ...

Databases are the spine of the tech industry: unsung, invisible, but critical–and beyond disastrous when they break or are deformed. This makes database people cautious. For years, only the Big ...

When the anticipated tsunami of data from the Internet of Things hits the enterprise, FoundationDB’s flagship NoSQL database should be ready to handle to deluge. The company has re-architectured its ...

Apple owned-company FoundationDB today announced that the FoundationDB core has been open sourced with the goal of building an open community with all major development done in the open. FoundationDB, ...

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Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by Apple. That all changed Thursday when Apple announced that the core of ...

Apple originally acquired FoundationDB in 2015, and last April it announced that it was making the cloud database open source. Now, things are being taken a step further as FoundationDB has announced ...

FoundationDB has raised $17 million for its industrial strength database with a data model similar to Google’s F1, a new scalable relational database management system used to run AdWords. The Series ...

VIENNA, VA--(Marketwired - November 12, 2013) - FoundationDB®, the company behind next generation database software that uniquely combines scalability and consistency, today announced that it has ...

Many database developers were thrilled with Apple's recent decision to open source FoundationDB, a distributed Big Data datastore it acquired three years ago. The multi-model NoSQL database -- ...