FoundationDB as a Storage Engine for Irmin

FoundationDB as a Storage Engine for Irmin

Explore a 17-minute conference talk that delves into the integration of FoundationDB as a storage engine for Irmin, an open-source distributed database. Learn about Irmin's Git-like principles, including snapshotting, branching, and merging operations over storage. Discover how FoundationDB's reliability, strong atomicity guarantees, and rich feature set make it an attractive option for Irmin's pluggable storage engines. Gain insights into the development of `irmin-fdb`, a storage engine that acts as a layer allowing interaction with FoundationDB in a new mode. Understand the challenges and process of developing a FoundationDB client for OCaml, the strongly typed functional language in which Irmin is implemented.