FoundationDB: A Distributed Database That Can't Be Killed

FoundationDB: A Distributed Database That Can't Be Killed

If you’ve seen the 1975 movie (and cult classic) “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” you might remember the Black Knight, a Knight so determined to guard the river passage that even the loss of all his limbs doesn’t deter him from his post. In many ways, FoundationDB is like the Black Knight of databases, able to keep running even when multiple attempts are made to interrupt its operations, noted Peter Boros, founding engineer for Tigris Data, an…