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A document data model on FoundationDB, implementing MongoDB® wire protocol

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2019-01-15 · latest 2025-10-03

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  1. …even a mongo DB compatibility layer for foundation DB, but it doesn't seem to be maintained sadly. https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer
    comment by fidotron · 2025-10-03 · in Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?
  2. …github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer Or one for documents, which speaks the MongoDB wire protocol https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer
    comment by pests · 2024-03-15 · in How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
  3. …did we second guess our decision. I could see this project renamed to simply "fdb-sqlite-layer" [1] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer [2] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer [3]…
    comment by monstrado · 2022-08-21 · in Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
  4. The FoundationDB Document Layer is compatibile with MongoDb 3.x API. https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer .and you get the transaction Al integrity. I stopped using MongoDB and switched to this.
    comment by manishsharan · 2022-03-12 · in Cloudant/IBM back off from FoundationDB based CouchDB rewrite
  5. There’s already a mongodb compatible document layer for FoundationDB: https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer
    comment by pokstad · 2021-11-01 · in MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative
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    story by rubyn00bie · 2021-11-01 · 1 comment
  7. …my keynote [3] from last August. [1] https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-record-layer/ [2] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93b--lTq2ng
    comment by monstrado · 2021-06-08 · in FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key value store [pdf]
  8. Note that there's also a separate MongoDB compatible layer: https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer And a copy of the original SQL layer: https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer
    comment by manigandham · 2019-01-15 · in Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer