A Mexican friend, long living in the USA, told me how much the Trump family reminded him of corrupt elite families in Mexico: "The dad thinks he's above the law and constantly cheats on his wife. The sons wear their hair slicked back and boast about how good they are at business even though they've never done anything in life but sponge off their dad's companies. And the daughters think they are glamorous fashion models and dream of owning a lifestyle brand."

You can see the same thing in thailand where the rural voters voted in a corrupt billionaire. Eventually his attractive daughter took over.

If I recall correctly, the "SQL layer" you had in FDB before the Apple acquisition was a nice proof of concept, but lacked support for many features (joins in SELECT, for example). Is the SQL layer code from that time available anywhere to the public? (I'm not seeing it in the repo announced by OP.)

I used to work there. The SQL layer was capable of actually the majority of SQL features including joins, etc. We had an internal rails app that we used to dog-food for performance monitoring, etc. I used to work on the document layer, and was sad to see it wasn't included here.

Perhaps it's this?

https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer

That has FoundationDB dependencies that don’t exist in the apple repo (SQL Parser, JDBC Driver, etc)