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FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store
Summary: Unbundled distributed KV store: separate in-memory txn mgmt, storage, and config for scalable ACID transactions. A deterministic fault-simulation framework enables rapid testing; its minimal feature set supports diverse layers atop FoundationDB (docs, graphs, semi-relational), powering Apple/Snowflake deployments.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6249
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2021
- Pagerank
- 7.716566e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,011 | 79.08%
- DOI
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10.1145/3448016.3457559
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