FoundationDB gives you the power of ACID transactions in a distributed database.
The interesting part is that FoundationDB is a Key-Value Store that uses tuples to model all sort of data (just like Linda).
For example, this is how they model JSON:
// JSON
{'user': { 'jones':
{ 'friendOf': 'smith',
'group': ['sales', 'service']},
'smith':
{ 'friendOf': 'jones',
'group': ['dev', 'research']}}}
// tuples
[('user', 'jones', 'friendOf', 'smith'),
('user', 'jones', 'group', 0, 'sales'),
('user', 'jones', 'group', 1, 'service'),
('user', 'smith', 'friendOf', 'jones'),
('user', 'smith', 'group', 0, 'dev'),
('user', 'smith', 'group', 1, 'research')]And this is how they model blob:
// ('blob', chunk_pos, data)
('blob', 0 , 01101001)
('blob', 7 , 01010101)
('blob', 15, 01010101)
...And all of this is extremely performant while staying ACID and distributed.