[chubot]

I'm pretty sure FoundationDB still relies on the more traditional model of hardware: "many fast, identically-spec'd machines on a rack, with fast reliable networking".

In other words, I don't think you can run Foundation DB across geographically dispersed data centers, as you can with Spanner, CockroachDB, and others.

Running on cloud VMs is a very hostile environment for a database, as others have pointed out in this thread.

Though I'm happy to hear from someone who knows more about FoundationDB.

[zzzcpan]

FoundationDB could probably do better than CockroachDB in multi datacenter configuration, because of the different trade offs they made, but I still wouldn't expect any of them do that well enough for most applications.