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Solution for organizations looking for a distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers
About FoundationDB
FoundationDB is multi-model, meaning you can store many types data in a single database. All data is safely stored, distributed, and replicated in the Key-Value Store component. FoundationDB is easy to install, grow, and manage. It has a distributed architecture that gracefully scales out, and handles faults while acting like a single ACID database. FoundationDB provides amazing performance on commodity hardware, allowing you to support very heavy loads at low cost. FoundationDB has been running in production for years and been hardened with lessons learned. Backing FoundationDB up is an unmatched testing system based on a deterministic simulation engine. We encourage your participation in our open-source community! Join us in technical and user discussions on the community forums, and learn how to contribute.
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