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)
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Authors
- 1. Jingyu Zhou (Apple)
- 2. Meng Xu (Apple)
- 3. Alexander Shraer (Apple)
- 4. Bala Namasivayam (Apple)
- 5. Alex Miller (Snowflake)
- 6. Evan Tschannen (Snowflake)
- 7. Steve Atherton (Snowflake)
- 8. Andrew J. Beamon (Snowflake)
- 9. Rusty Sears (Apple)
- 10. John Leach (Apple)
- 11. Dave Rosenthal (Apple)
- 12. Xin Dong (Apple)
- 13. Will Wilson (Antithesis)
- 14. Ben Collins (Antithesis)
- 15. David Scherer (Antithesis)
- 16. Alec Grieser (Apple)
- 17. Young Liu (Apple)
- 18. Alvin Moore (Apple)
- 19. Bhaskar Muppana (Apple)
- 20. Xiaoge Su (Apple)
- 21. Vishesh Yadav (Apple)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zhou_sigmod21,
title = {{FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store}},
author = {Zhou, Jingyu and Xu, Meng and Shraer, Alexander and Namasivayam, Bala and Miller, Alex and Tschannen, Evan and Atherton, Steve and Beamon, Andrew J. and Sears, Rusty and Leach, John and Rosenthal, Dave and Dong, Xin and Wilson, Will and Collins, Ben and Scherer, David and Grieser, Alec and Liu, Young and Moore, Alvin and Muppana, Bhaskar and Su, Xiaoge and Yadav, Vishesh},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457559},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457559},
year = {2021}
}
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