FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer: A record-oriented store built on FoundationDB

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19 pointsjasim4 comments

Had been pretty quiet for a number of years, but two pretty sizable capabilities have been added in the last 6 months, which looks much more alive: predicate pushdown and roll-up aggregation. https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer/pull/2916 https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer/pull/2746

FoundationDB endlessly interests me and even though the record layer is nice, my dream would be a proper SQL layer. I've been experimenting with making Postgres run on top of FoundationDB, effectively making Postgres a stateless layer itself, and it actually works surprisingly well as a POC.

That sounds incredibly cool - have you written up anything about it? I would love to learn more about it.

Unfortunately nothing yet. Feel free to hit me up at the email in my profile and I'll let you know if I do write something up.

Another pretty cool fact is that I've so far managed to build the entire thing without having to fork Postgres, only using all the built-in extension points which are really great.

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