but as far as i can tell the only thing that differs with it from leveldb, boltdb, badgerdb, rocksdb is its support of some kind of distributed replication integration

rocksdb is good, and bolt and badger are derivatives but only go versions and only embedded

there is also lmdb, which is used by strfry as well, so i'm wondering why foundationdb instead of one of these non-tech-company-developed C++ abominations that do the same thing except for replication

it looks also like the replication strategy is primitive, probably RAFT or Paxos derived, but it doesn't specify which is a smell for me