# Technical overview of the database

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**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [April 20, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/technical-overview-of-the-database/135 "2018-04-20T15:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@gaurav](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/gaurav)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/technical-overview-of-the-database/135/26 "2018-12-02T11:30:07Z")

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That explains a lot!

One last thing: is there a knob that could be used to control the tolerance to missed/delayed heartbeats, to accommodate for environment where packet delays could be more common? Are there any unwanted side-affects of increasing the tolerance to missed/delayed heartbeats, other that higher transaction latency when a node fails?

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