> something of a curiosity from the past, a what-could-have-been story
This is what I find bizarre: one would think that engineers would take a rational approach and look at technical merit rather than follow hype.
Technically today FDB is state of the art, it's really hard to point to any distributed database that gives you strict serializable semantics and versionstamps (these are very flexible and a great tool to implement things like changefeeds).
But I agree that being bought by Apple killed the momentum and some people don't realize it's been open-sourced since.
This is what I find bizarre: one would think that engineers would take a rational approach and look at technical merit rather than follow hype.
Technically today FDB is state of the art, it's really hard to point to any distributed database that gives you strict serializable semantics and versionstamps (these are very flexible and a great tool to implement things like changefeeds).
But I agree that being bought by Apple killed the momentum and some people don't realize it's been open-sourced since.