Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, BigchainDB starts with a big data distributed database and then adds blockchain characteristics - decentralized control, immutability and the transfer of digital assets.
Towards One Million Writes per Second
Each write is recorded on the blockchain database without the need for Merkle Trees or sidechains. Details in our whitepaper, section 8.
Native Support of Multiassets
With no native currency on BigchainDB, any asset, token or currency can be issued.
Customizable
Design your own private network with custom assets, transactions, permissions and transparency.
Rich Permissioning
Set permissions at transaction level to ensure a clear separation of duties and enforce Chinese walls.
Federation Consensus Model
Decentralized control via a federation of voting nodes makes for a super-peer P2P network.
Open Source
Open sourced to the community so that everyone can use it and build their own applications on top of it.
Public or Private
Roll out your own public or private networks for specific industry use cases.
Petabytes Capacity Coming soon
Load up hashes, metadata and files onto the BigchainDB so every asset can reside on the blockchain database.
Query Coming soon
Leverage efficient big data query capabilities out of the box.
Linear Scaling Coming soon
The more nodes added, the higher the throughput and the higher the storage capacity.
For more insight, read our whitepaper.
Made for the Decentralization Ecosystem
BigchainDB is complementary to decentralized storage, processing and communication building blocks. It can be used side by side with higher-level decentralized computing platforms and applications, and protocols for identity, financial assets, intellectual property and sidechains. BigchainDB fills a gap in the decentralized stack.
Traditional Stack
Blockchain Stack
Blockchains Meet Big Data
BigchainDB combines the key benefits of distributed DBs and traditional blockchains, with an emphasis on scale.
We built BigchainDB on top of an enterprise-grade distributed DB, from which BigchainDB inherits high throughput, high capacity, a full-featured NoSQL query language, efficient querying (coming soon) and permissioning.
| Bitcoin Blockchain | Distributed Database | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Immutability | |||
| No Central Authority | |||
| Assets Over Network | |||
| High Throughput | |||
| Low Latency | |||
| High Capacity | |||
| Rich Permissioning | |||
| Query Capabilities |
Whitepaper
BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database