FoundationDB (Enterprise)

<Warning> FoundationDB requires an enterprise license. Contact [enterprise support](https://rivet.dev/sales) for setup guidance and access. </Warning>

Overview

FoundationDB is the recommended storage backend for scalable, production-ready Rivet deployments. It is a distributed, ordered key-value store originally built by Apple.

FoundationDB powers some of the largest infrastructure in the world:

• Apple: iCloud and other Apple services
• Snowflake: Cloud data platform metadata layer
• Datadog: Observability and monitoring platform
• Tigris Data: Globally distributed object storage

Its strict serializability guarantees, fault tolerance, and ability to scale linearly across nodes make it the ideal backend for Rivet's actor state and orchestration layer.

Why FoundationDB

	RocksDB (File System)	PostgreSQL	FoundationDB
Scalability	Single node	Primary/replica failover	Linear horizontal scaling
Fault tolerance	None	Primary/replica failover	Automatic recovery with no data loss
Production readiness	Development and small deployments	Experimental for multi-node	Battle-tested at global scale

Getting Started

FoundationDB configuration and cluster setup are handled as part of enterprise onboarding. Contact enterprise support to get started.