How does this compare with CockroachDB? I'm planning to use CockroachDB for a project but would love to get an idea if I can get better results with FoundationDB.
They might be targeting the wrong market, hence the desperate marketing. For people who use MySQL/PostgreSQL a compatible, slower, but distributed database probably just doesn't solve any problem. Those people need a managed solution, not a distributed one.
He is just talking about layer model. Being iOS engineer for 4 years and Web developer for 5 years, These frameworks only works for certain use cases and at the end you wish that you did the right thing from beginning.