FoundationDB

FoundationDB is a distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers. It organizes data as an ordered key-value store and employs ACID transactions for all operations. It is especially well-suited for read/write workloads but also has excellent performance for write-intensive workloads. Users interact with the database using API language binding.

Building Locally

macOS

1. Check out this repo on your Mac.
2. Install the Xcode command-line tools.
3. Download version 1.52 of Boost.
4. Set the BOOSTDIR environment variable to the location containing this boost installation.
5. Install Mono.
6. Install a JDK. FoundationDB currently builds with Java 8.
7. Navigate to the directory where you checked out the foundationdb repo.
8. Run make.

This will build the fdbserver binary and the python bindings. If you want to build our other bindings, you will need to install a runtime for the language whose binding you want to build. Each binding has an .mk file which provides specific targets for that binding.