awesome-foundationdb

General

Important links:

• GitHub repo
• Documentation
  • Downloads
• Community Forum
• Blog

Bindings

Official bindings:

• Python
  • Class Scheduling tutorial
  • Recipes
• Ruby
  • Class Scheduling tutorial
  • Recipes
• Java
  • Class Scheduling tutorial
  • Recipes
• Go
  • Class Scheduling tutorial
  • Recipes
• C
  • No tutorial yet :(

Community bindings (varying levels of production-readiness):

• Rust (@fdb-rs's community)
• Tokio/Rust (@rajivr)
• C#/.NET (@Doxense)
• NodeJS (@josephg)
  • Example repo (@bbonnin)
• PHP (@viest)
• Clojure (@vedang)
• Clojure (@tirkarthi)
• Clojure (@alex-dixon)
• Clojure Record-Layer (@exoscale)
• Julia (@tanmaykm)
• Python asyncio (@amirouche)
• Haskell (@crclark)
• TypeScript (@openland)
• Elixir (@ananthakumaran)
• Swift (@kirilltitov)
• Erlang (@apache)
• Scala (@pwliwanow)

Layers

Experimental/Proof of Concept:

• FoundationDB's original SQL layer (no longer developed)
• FoundationDB's example Python layers
  • simpledoc.py (missing from main repo)
• Simple object store (@Fabianlindfors)
• JanusGraph adapter (@twilmes)
• Python NBD server (@dividuum)
• Java NBD server (@spullara)
• FoundationDB Block Device (@meln1k)
• Hashicorp Vault
• OpenTick (@opentradesolutions)
• STORED document layer (@capturetechnologies)
• Nomure graph database (@OkamiIO)
• Lucene layer
• Zookeeper layer (@pH14)
• Redis protocol FDB Gateway (@ryanworl)
• ETCD layer (@PierreZ)
• Record-Store (@PierreZ)
• Query Language (@janderland)
• Golang layer (@romannikov)

Production:

• FoundationDB document layer
• FoundationDB record layer
• DeepSeek Fire-Flyer File System (3FS)

Operations

• Terraform deployment PoC (@bitgn)
• Database benchmark that includes FDB (@pingcap)
• Prometheus exporter (@leoluk)
• Wavefront FDB Tailer (@wavefrontHQ)

Technical

Papers

• Cloudkit: structured storage for mobile applications (2018)
• Towards a General Framework for ML-based Self-tuning Databases (2020)
• QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit (2021)
• FoundationDB: A Distributed, Unbundled, Transactional Key Value Store (2021)

Blogposts

• FoundationDB Layers (2018) (abdullin.com)
• FoundationDB's high contention allocator (activesphere.com)
• BUGGIFY (transactional.blog)
• Building a FoundationDB Cluster: Roles, Classes, and Processes (nikita.melkozerov.dev)
• Time Series and FoundationDB: Millions of writes/s and 10x compression in under 2,000 lines of Go (github.com/richardartoul)
• FoundationDB Record Layer (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
• Notes about FoundationDB (pierrezemb.fr)
• Crafting row keys in FoundationDB (pierrezemb.fr)
• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store (www.micahlerner.com)
• Reading Group. FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store (charap.co)
• Migrating Snowflake’s Metadata series:
  • Part 1: Migrating Snowflake’s Metadata Part with No Downtime (medium.com)
  • Part 2: Migrating Snowflake’s Metadata with FDB Replication Service (medium.com)
• Bigblue’s multi-model database on FoundationDB (medium.com)
• Skipping the boring parts of building a database using FoundationDB
• How we built our data layer on FoundationDB

Talks

• "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson (2014)
• Playlist FoundationDB Summit 2018
• Solving Everyday Data Problems with FoundationDB
• Playlist FoundationDB Summit 2019
• FoundationDB or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Database (Markus Pilman, Snowflake) (2020)
• Novel Design Choices in Apache CouchDB (Adam Kocoloski) (2021)
• SIGMOD 568 QuiCK: a Queuing System in CloudKit (2021)
• SIGMOD 538 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional KeyValue Store (2021)
• Paper #65. FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store (2021)
• Markus Pilman (Snowflake) - FoundationDB at Snowflake: Architecture and Internals (2021)
• Operating FoundationDB on Kubernetes - Johannes M. Scheuermann (DoK Day EU 2022)
• How we cook Foundation DB / Daniil Gitelson (OW Service) (HighLoad++ Armenia 2022)
• Rhino: Low-latency Key-value Database in Rust (2024) (Github repo)
• How Tigris Leverages FoundationDB for Global Metadata Storage (May 15th 2024)
• Encryption in FoundationDB - FDB Meetup (Snowflake, May 15th 2024)
• FoundationDB as an Identity Graph database: Adobe’s Journey - FDB Meetup (June 20th 2024)
• FoundationDB on Kubernetes - FDB Meetup (2024)
• Spark connector for FoundationDB - FDB Meetup (Adobe, 2024)
• Control Plane for FoundationDB - FDB Meetup (Snowflake, 2024)
• Managing FoundationDB Infrastructure - FDB Meetup (Adobe, 2024)
• Self Healing FoundationDB From Gray Failures - FDB Meetup (Adobe, 2025)
• RocksDB Storage Engine for FoundationDB - FDB Meetup (Adobe, 2025)
• FoundationDB, the Black Knight - Peter Boros, Tigris Data

Podcasts

• Data Engineering Podcast episode 80: Using FoundationDB As The Bedrock For Your Distributed Systems (2019)
• Softwar Engineering Daily: FoundationDB with Ryan Worl (2019)
• Big data Hebdo 93: FoundationDB (2019 🇫🇷)
• FoundationDB: from idea to Apple acquisition (Antithesis BugBash Podcast)

Miscellaneous

• GitHub - jzhou77/flow-examples Examples for using Flow language

Production Experience

• Snowflake - data warehouse for the cloud
• Wavefront - cloud monitoring and analytics by VMWare
• SkuVault - online warehouse management system