[deepanchor]

Didn't downvote you, but I believe the excitement is over FoundationDB's ability to perform ACID compliant distributed transactions without sacrificing performance -which to my knowledge no current RDBMS or even NoSql can do.

[pacala]

> no current RDBMS can do

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ ?

[deepanchor]

Meant to say "no current open-source RDBMS"

[geeostation]

Cosmos DB on Azure has been doing it for a while now