But yeah you're right for the most part. Turns out pretty much any database can be written in terms of transactions of KV pairs, which is what foundationdb gives you, so it means you can write your database query layer as a stateless, scalable service.
There have been attempts to write a SQL RDMS layer for it but it isn't maintained.
https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowf...
But yeah you're right for the most part. Turns out pretty much any database can be written in terms of transactions of KV pairs, which is what foundationdb gives you, so it means you can write your database query layer as a stateless, scalable service.
There have been attempts to write a SQL RDMS layer for it but it isn't maintained.