Vienna-based, FoundationDB, the company behind the next generation database software that uniquely combines scalability and consistency, this week has unveiled version 3.0 of its flagship product, the FoundationDB Key-Value Store. According to the company, the version 3.0 offers enhanced performance and monitoring capabilities while maintaining transactional integrity, scalability and fault tolerance for operational workloads in the cloud or on premise. FoundationDB claims that the enhanced version sets a new bar in transactional workload performance as the fastest, most scalable, transactional database in the cloud with a 32-machine cluster running on Amazon EC2 sustaining more than 14,000,000 random writes per second.
The Key Value Store 3.0 also comes with a set of other new features , including "layered" architecture, enhanced centralized monitoring and support for a new realm of applications for the rising Internet of Things market.
