# Technical overview of the database

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/technical-overview-of-the-database/135>\
**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:** ![Evan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/evan/32/104_2.png) [@Evan](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/Evan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/technical-overview-of-the-database/135/4 "2018-04-20T17:13:18Z")

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Besides diagrams I posted above, I added some documentation that just has not been built yet.

> <https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/documentation/sphinx/source/kv-architecture.rst>

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