How FoundationDB powers SnowflakeDB's metadata! - Ashish Motivala, Snowflake Computing
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2018-12-20

FoundationDB is an integral part of the architecture of SnowflakeDB, a cloud SQL analytics database. FDB is effectively their OLTP engine and has allowed them to build some truly amazing and differentiating features. 

Snowflake have been operating it for 4+ years, and as they have grown, FDB has continued to scale from tens of servers to thousands of servers at present.

In this talk Ashish will present why FDB was their preferred choice, what purposes it serves, and the reliability and scale of their FDB clusters.