I leveraged FoundationDB and RecordLayer to build a transactional catalog system for all our data services at a previous company, and it was honestly just an amazing piece of software. Adding gRPC into the mix for the serving layer felt so natural since schemas / records are defined using Protobuf with RecordLayer.
The only real downside is that the onramp for running FoundationDB at scale is quite a bit higher than a traditional distributed database.
The only real downside is that the onramp for running FoundationDB at scale is quite a bit higher than a traditional distributed database.