Client Design

FoundationDB supports language bindings for application development using the ordered key-value store. The following documents cover use of the bindings, from getting started and design principles to best practices and data modeling. The latest changes are detailed in Release Notes.

• Getting Started on macOS explains how to install a local FoundationDB server suitable for development on macOS.
• Getting Started on Linux explains how to install a local FoundationDB server suitable for development on Linux.
• Downloads describes the FoundationDB packages available on our website.
• Developer Guide explains principles of application development applicable across all language bindings.
• Data Modeling explains recommended techniques for representing application data in the key-value store.
• Client Testing Explains how one can use workloads to test client code.
• Using FoundationDB Clients contains information on FoundationDB clients applicable across all language bindings.
• Transaction Tagging contains information about using transaction tags in your client code to enable targeted transaction throttling.
• API Version Upgrade Guide contains information about upgrading client code to a new API version.
• Transaction profiling and analyzing contains information about enabling transaction profiling and analyzing.
• Known Limitations describes both long-term design limitations of FoundationDB and short-term limitations applicable to the current version.
• Tenants describes the use of the tenants feature to define named transaction domains.