Notes on how databases actually work.
This blog is organized in series. The first one is about FoundationDB: it follows a transaction from start to finish and uses that path to explain how the system fits together. More series will follow.
FoundationDB: the architecture, seen through a transaction
FoundationDB separates transaction processing from storage. Rather than list its components, this post follows a single transaction through them, from the moment it starts to the moment its writes become readable.