FoundationDB

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with FoundationDB, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Can't find good instructions on how to set up and scale2022-08-21
FoundationDB is unintuitive to use and deploy2022-03-12
Configuration has many gotchas and is opaque; users can't tell what's happening2021-06-08
Hard to use compared with RethinkDB2020-06-02
Database silently stops working with no indication of what options exist or what went wrong2018-11-20
Can't find the source code after installing the product2013-11-12