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It seems like ultimately there will be an external protocol for distributed databases. For example bigchaindb.
by smokeyj 11y ago
It seems like ultimately there will be an external protocol for distributed databases. For example bigchaindb.
- jokoon 11y agoThis is much more interesting. Accessing data instead of accessing files or addresses makes more sense if you're making an application. With such a database system, it would be trivial to build a decentralized forum, for example.
- noffle 11y agoThe "FS" part of IPFS can be misleading: you can store arbitrary data in IPFS. The tooling merely provides a means of viewing Merkle DAGs (the base data structure) as a file hierarchy because it's a pretty clean 1:1 mapping that's familiar to many people.