When the anticipated tsunami of data from the Internet of Things hits the enterprise, FoundationDB’s flagship NoSQL database should be ready to handle to deluge.

The company has re-architectured its FoundationDB Key-Value Store to handle a significantly larger amount of data, which IoT sensors will no doubt soon generate and send to data centers.

“If there is one thing machines are good at is creating data,” said CEO Dave Rosenthal, explaining why a significant increase in data ingestion rates is necessary. “We’re moving from a world of human-generated data to a world of machine-generated data.”

In internal tests, version 3 of the FoundationDB Key-Value Store, running on a 32-machine cluster on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute), demonstrated the ability to execute more than 14 million writes per second, a significant gain over 400,000 random writes per second earlier versions of the software could handle.

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