January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
11h 17m
English
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Features of BigchainDB
BigchainDB encompasses all the essential features of a distributed database and a typical blockchain-based system. Although it doesn't have the ideal features of a blockchain-based database, it is a great data storage solution and is a useful decentralized database system.
Blockchain inherited features
The blockchain-inherited features of BigchainDB include the following:
- Decentralization
Each node in the network contains its own MongoDB instance, which maintains all the transactions. BigchainDB is decentralized to ensure that there is no single owner, no single point of control, and no single point of failure. Even if a third of the nodes fail in any way, the network will be resilient to this failure. BigchainDB ...